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and all apparatus be made at any time at this building, on 

 conditions that the exhibit should be in nowise interfered with. 

 The premiums should range from one dollar to twenty, and the 

 total should reach to the hundreds. 



We have found in Michigan that all that is necessary to 

 effect this grand and invaluable transformation is a little life 

 and energy on the part of the bee-keepers. Through the enter- 

 prise of H. D. Cutting and others, the bee-keeping exhibit of 

 our State fairs, in a separate building, leaves little to be 

 desired, and is a credit to the industry. 



effects of such exhibits. 



They show, that apiculture is no second-rate business. 

 They attract attention and educate as nothing else can. They 

 go hand in hand with local conventions in instructing bee- 

 keepers so that no inferior honey will go on the markets. 

 They enable bee-keepers to see and buy just what they need 

 in the more intelligent prosecution of their business. They 

 scatter the little pint, half-pint, and gill pails of honey into 

 thousands of homes, and develop a knowledge and taste that 

 stimulate the honey market most powerfully. Tons of honey 

 have been sold at the Toronto fairs, the influence of which has 

 been a lasting surprise even to the most enterprising pro- 

 ducers. I believe that the great quartet that is to advance 

 apiculture is fairs, associations, co-operative organizations, 

 and improved bees. 



