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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



October 



In a telegram of July 8 to the State 

 Department from Rio Janeiro, Minis- 

 ter Thompson expresses confidence 

 that the Brazillian Congress will vote 

 the appropriation of $600,000 Ameri- 

 can dollars asked for by the President 

 of Brazil for an exhibit at the Louisi- 

 ana Purchase Exposition. He finds a 

 most friendly feeling for the United 

 States in the government circles in 

 Brazil, and saj's the Brazilian exhibit 

 will be under the direction of Dr. Luro 

 Muller, Minister of Industry, Trans- 

 portation and Public Works. 



The Nebraska World's Fair Commis- 

 sion has added $750 to the premiums 

 offered by the Nebraska Improved 

 Corn Growers' Association for World's 

 Fair exhibits of corn. The Commission 

 has also appointed special collectoi's 

 of forage grasses and sheaf grains, 

 and offers special premiums for the 

 best collections. Private subscriptions 

 to the amount of $25,000 have so far 

 been added to the State appropriation 

 of $35,000 at the disposal of the Com- 

 mittee. 



The Gloucester (Mass.) Times re- 

 ports that Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, Chief 

 of the Department of Fish and Game, 

 visited the city on June 26 and confer- 

 red with the president of the Glouces- 

 ter Board of Trade and its Fishery 

 Committee in regard to the city's rep- 

 resentation in the Exposition's Fish 

 Department. The Times says , that 

 Gloucester is the largest fishing port 

 in the United States and urges the 

 Board of Trode to see that a reperesn- 

 tative exhibit be made at St. Louis 

 next year. 



Several companies have been organ- 

 ized to take care of visitors to St. 

 Louis during the World's Fair. The 

 newest one is the World's Fair Chau- 

 tauqua Company, which announces 

 that it will provide visitors witli coin- 

 fortable lodgings near the Exposition 

 gates for two weeks or longer at $1 

 per day, leaving the board money in 

 their pockets to be exi)ended for meals 

 at the company's table or at adjacent 

 restaurants. A "limited" membership 

 costing $3 entitles the holder to lodg- 

 ing at $"!.50 a day. The payment of 

 $11 more in installments secures a full 

 membership, which is transferable at 

 any time before the service is complet- 



ed. The Germauia Trust Co. of St 

 Louis guarantees the repayment of th( 

 remittances in case the company faih 

 to render the service. This include; 

 a corps of scientific guides and lectur 

 ers who will conduct the lodger; 

 through the wonders of the Exposition 

 I. C. McNeill. President of the Wiscon 

 sin State Normal School, is the com | 

 pany's president, and two president; 

 of the Missouri State Teachers Associa 

 tion, Ed. D. Luckey and Wm. J. Haw 

 kins, are respectively vice-presiden 

 and secretary. 



Mr. Chas. A. Spiess, of Las Vegas 

 New Mexico, President of the Nev 

 Mexico Commission, visited the Ad 

 ministration Building July 6 and con 

 ferred with Director-of-Exhibits Skifl 

 Director-of-Works Taylor and a nuru 

 ber of the department chiefs. Nev 

 ^lexico will spend $7,000 of its appro 

 priation, $32,000, on a building. Sui 

 rounding the structure will be a cac 

 tus garden in which many curious va 

 rieties of the plant are to be showr 

 New Mexico will exhibit in all deparl 

 ments. In Mining, a Turquoise min 

 and the gems from it. for which NeT 

 Mexico is famous, will be shown, an» 

 in live stock, a large herd of Hereford 

 will be exhibited. 



After visiting California and person 

 ally viewing the situation in tha 

 world-renowned land of big hone; 

 tanks, sage brush and jack rabbits 

 the editor of the American Bee Joui 

 nal advises liis readers that, "On thi 

 whole, taking into account ties o 

 friendship and old associates, as wel 

 as trouble and expense of making i 

 change, the probability is that not on^ 

 liee-keejier in ten will find himsel 

 better off anywhere in the world thai 

 right where he is now." 



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