THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



365 



American Institute Fair. 



Among the many valuable and inter- 

 esting exhibits at the Fair of the 

 American Institute in Kew York, dur- 

 ing tlie past montli, the following will 

 be engaging to our readers: 



DISPLAY OF HONEY AND WAX. 



A magnificent pillar, made by tier- 

 ing up 3,000 lbs. of comb honey from 

 tlie apiary of Capt. J. E. Hetherington, 

 of Cherry A^alley, K. Y. The pillar 

 was snnnounted by a display of 4,000 

 lbs. of beautiful yellow beeswax. This 

 was exhibited by H. K. & F. B. Thur- 

 ber & Co., who purchased his entire 

 crop of 150,000 lbs., and paid him there- 

 for nearly $30,000. Capt. Hetherington 

 is one of the largest honey producers 

 in the world, and withal'a genial com- 

 panion and a cultured gentleman. He 



his claim for it cost him the Thurber 

 Gold Medal. It is claimed by honey 

 dealers that such paper would become 

 dirty with fly-specks, etc., and retailers 

 would seriously object to handling it, 

 for that reason. His crates hold 12 

 boxes, and are very substantial and 

 convenient. 



G. M. Doolittle, Borodino, N.Y., had 

 also a flue display of the same kind of 

 honey (from the teasel). His honey 

 was put up in crates of two sizes — one 

 containing 12 and the other 48 boxes. 

 Mr. Doolittle, it seems has done mwc/i, 

 having sold 20,000 lbs. of comb honey 

 to Messrs. Thurber & Co. and took the 

 Gold Medal ! He has only six acres of 

 land, but has cleared over $6,000 from 

 his bees in Ave years, after paying all 

 expenses ! Is not that doing more than 

 a little 1 



HOGE'S COMB-HONEY CARRIER. 



uses a very convenient and cheaply 

 made crate for his box honey, contain- 

 ing a dozen boxes of one comb each. 

 His honey is mostly from white clover; 

 the balance being from buckwheat and 

 basswood. 



N. N. Betsinger, Marcellus, N. Y., 

 had an excellent sample of honey, 

 which was gathered from the teasel 

 blossoms. He also exhibited some of 

 the seed and stalks of this plant. 

 Teasel is a plant whicli is used in tak- 

 ing off the nap from cloth. These 

 blossoms make the whitest and best 

 honey, commanding the highest prices. 

 Mr. Betsinger's honey was nicely put 

 up, but the sides were ornamented by 

 " scolloped " blue paper, prepared for 

 the purpose, for which he claimed a 

 superiority, as it excluded the air from 

 the honey in the box. This paper and 



C. R. Isham, Peoria, JST.Y., had a tine 

 display of excellent white honey in his 

 tin-cornered and glass-sided one-comb 

 boxes. The three cases on exhibition 

 he sold to Thurber v^ Co. for 25 cts. per 

 pound— $90 in all, and one of them goes 

 to England as a sample of the best 

 American honey. He says he has sent 

 tons of comb honey in these boxes by 

 freight without loss by breakage. He 

 now uses the same arrangement in sec- 

 tional boxes, and glazes when tilled. 



E. D. Clark, Randallsville,]S'.Y., had 

 an excellent exhibit of honey. His 

 crates have a peculiarity— an auger 

 hole through the bottom of the crate, 

 under each box, through which they 

 can be easily raised by the finger, over- 

 coming a difficulty that is sometimes 

 quite annoying to retailers. 



J. E. Moore, Byron, JST.Y., had also a 



