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'ce^sary experience for more exteud- 

 i operations may be acquired wliile 

 arking witli a few. Tlie cost of start- 

 g an apiary is eomitaratively small, 

 •ing about ^Ho. including swarm of 

 ■es in hive, bee smolcer, veil, and 

 her appliances, all of which will be 

 fficient for conducting the apiary as 



increases. In selecting hives, one 

 the modern movable frame hives, 

 ith super for surplus honey boxes, 

 ould be used, and the simpler its 

 nstruction the better. All hives in 

 e yard should be alike, so that parts 

 ay be interchanged. Much pleasure 

 ay be had and information gained 

 • the study of bees kept in an obser- 

 ition hive. 



At the close of the article a list of 

 e best works on bees and bee-keeping 



given, and mention is made of the 

 •urse in bee-keeping to be given at 

 e Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 (ge. beginning the fourth Wednesday 

 ■ May, and continuing four weeks, 

 he article is illustrated by cuts show- 

 g desirable hives and an excellent 

 ilf-tone of a swarm of bees in an ob- 

 rvation hive. — Farm Poultry, Aug. 



nient and also the Chinese building, 

 on the eompletiou of which next Janu- 

 ary he will return hom-i and e.scort the 

 Imperial Chief Commissioner. Prince 

 P"u Luu to St. Louis. On July <; he 

 was waited on with carriages by the 

 representatives of the Committee on 

 Ceremonies, who escorted him and his 

 official stal¥, dressed in the picturesque 

 official costumes of the Chinese Court 

 to the Administration Building where 

 the first official call was made on Pres- 

 ident Francis and the Exposition offi- 

 cials. Later the visitors were taken for 

 a drive over the WorUFs Fair Grounds 

 and afterwards to luncheon at the St. 

 Louis Club. Mr. Wong visits the Ad- 

 ministration Building almost daily. 



AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. 



The Chinese Imperial Yice-Commis- 

 oner. Wong Kai Kah. arrived in St. 

 ouis from Peking on .Tuly 3, and took 

 ^ssession of the furnished mansion, 

 ?8.j Goodfellow avenue, which will 

 i the residence of himself, his fam- 

 y and his official staff until after the 

 nal closing of the Exposition gates. 

 e brought with him his corps of ser- 

 ants and skilled artizans to put the 

 nishing touches on the Chinese build- 

 ig and will begin its construction at 

 uce. He was partly educated in the 

 nited States, has lived here long 

 longh to be familiar with American 

 lanners and customs, is an admirable 

 laster of English. ;iud the newspaper 

 ^porters describe him as most inter- 

 •iting and charming. He says this 

 •ill be China's first official participa- 

 on in a world's fair, and neither ef- 

 3rt nor money will be spared in mak- 

 ig it a memorable representation of 

 'hinese progress, art and industry. 

 The collection of the exhibits is pro- 

 ressing rapidly. They will be fully 

 •stalled filling the allotted space be- 

 ore the Fair gates open. He is here 

 J complete all preparations for install- 



Mr. Allen V. Cockrell writes from 

 Washington. D. C: 



•'Cuban Minister advises the pas- 

 sage by the Senate of the bill appro- 

 Itriating sSO.OtK) for participation." 



Hon. Henry Wade, of Toronto, On- 

 tario, the Registrar of Live Stock for 

 Canada, writes F. D. Coburn, Chief of 

 the Exposition's Department of Live 

 Stock, as follows: 



•"We are working up a large exhibit 

 for your Exposition next year. Have 

 already waited on Hon. Sydney Fisher, 

 Minister of Agriculture, asking him 

 for a large grant of money, which I 

 hope and expect we will receive." 



•"Canada made an exhibit of rare ex- 

 cellence at the World's Columbian Ex- 

 Iiosition of 1893," says Col. C. F. Mills, 

 Secretary of the Live Stock Depart- 

 ment, "and in not a few of the classes 

 received the larger portion of the prize 

 money. In addition to the prizes giv- 

 en by the Provincial Government to 

 Canadian exhibitors at Chicago the 

 Columbian management awarded 

 prizes to the breeders of Ontario and 

 Quebec as follows: On cattle, $3,980; 

 horses, $1,305; sheep, $5,200: swine, 

 $1,395; total, $11,880. The prize fund 

 provided for the Live Stock Exhibit at 

 the World's Fair next year will be 

 nearly twice as large as the amount 

 awarded at Chicago in 1893, and the 

 skillful breeders of Canada, of whom 

 there are many, can be depended upon 

 to exhibit stock of such superior qual- 

 ity as to .iustly entitle them to receive 

 a liberal share of the quarter of a mil- 

 lion of dollars set apart by the Louisi- 

 ana Purchase Exposition for stocK 

 shown at St. Louis in 1904." 



