AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Collective Hxliibits at the 



World's Fair are very desirable, and 

 will, no doubt, prevail. Still some are 

 advocating a division of the exhibits 

 into States. Here are the views of Mr. 

 J. W. Tefft, to which we call attention : 



Do the manufacturers of apicultural 

 mplements and the honey-producers 

 .contemplate making, at the World's 

 'Fair, a collective exhibit of their pro- 

 ducts ? 



Doubtless some manufacturers, as well 

 as the honey-producers, will make in- 

 dividual exhibits. But as that plan 

 would perhaps be governed by the wish 

 to advertise their individual product for 

 the purpose of increasing their trade, 

 would not that pheat the chief end of 

 the Columbian Exhibition ? By a col- 

 lective exhibit, would not that tend to 

 the best service ? 



It seems to me a collective exhibit is 

 desirable on many accounts. The man- 

 ufacture of apicultural implements is 

 far reaching, and so necessary to the 

 honey-producer, while the honey-pro- 

 ducer is the one from whom the manu- 

 facturer derives his living, and is the 

 person who produces that delicious, de- 

 lectable morsel — honey. Therefore, such 

 a universal interest should have a char- 

 acteristic combination display of the 

 separate products, free from personal 

 design, and based upon four motives : 



1. From an exhalted patriotism, to 

 exhibit to the world at large what our 

 American bee-keepers accomplish in the 

 production of honey. 



2. To afford visitors an opportunity 

 of knowing of American apicultural im- 

 plements and the products of American 

 manufacturers. 



3. To induce criticism, and thereby 

 stimulate inventors of apicultural im- 

 plements. 



4. To show to the world the skill of 

 the American apicultural mechanics. 



How many are in favor of a collective 

 exhibit ? Should the two branches be 

 together, or separate ? I know they 

 should be in convention, but in this case 

 I think they should be combined. 



Success is sometimes gained at the 

 moment when it is dispaired of. The 

 owner of a patent medicine once suc- 

 ceeded in interesting a capitalist, who 

 gave him a large sum to spend in adver- 

 tising. He advertised extensively, and 

 in a short time the money was gone. 



Meanwhile he had not sold an extra 

 bottle of his medicine, in spite of his 

 expenditure. He went with trembling 

 to the capitalist, to tell him that the 

 game was up, and the cash gone. The 

 capitalist was absent, and would not be 

 back for a week. Before the capitalist 

 got back, the tide had turned. Orders 

 began coming in from all sorts of unex- 

 pected places. Then the big wholesale 

 men began to send for it, and that 

 medicine firm has an immense income. 



A Ne-w Section Press has 

 arrived in our Museum. It will work as 

 well with a full size sheet of foundation 

 as with a " starter." It comes from 

 Charles White, of Farmers' Valley, 

 Nebr. -He describes it as follows : 



My section press does the work of 

 three machines — section press, founda- 

 tion cutter, and starter and fastener ; or, 



Section Press and Foundation Fastener. 



in fact, it cuts the starter and fastens it 

 in the section all with one motion, thus 

 doing away with the puttering job of 

 cutting foundation and then fastening it 

 into the sections. 



It will do twice the work of other 

 presses that I know of. Any one can 

 operate it. The starters have to be just 

 so, after being put in with one of these 

 machines; the starters will be in the 

 middle every time, and all of one width. 

 The machine will weigh about 8 pounds. 



President Secor has been elec- 

 ted a Delegate from Iowa to the Repub- 

 lican National Convention, which meets 

 in Minneapolis on June 7. As that will 

 be swarming time, he will likely be able 

 to help hive the "presidential bee," or at 

 least to extricate it from the metaphor- 

 ical "son-bonnet." 



