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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



evident that some vital points were 

 kept in view in its preparation, such, 

 for instance, as that of securing- a 

 beautiful exhibit that would be of in- 

 terest to the general public; demon- 

 strating- to the people the magnitude of 

 the honey industry of the State; also 

 illustrating- the various uses to which 

 honey and beeswax may be put. The 

 difficulty, dang-er and expense of get- 

 ting- the different exhibits to the fair, 

 was also considered. For instance, 

 bees and queens are given a higher 

 proportionate premium, and comb 

 honey is g^iven a higher premium than 

 that given to extracted. Here is the 

 list complete. 



Italian Bees and Queen in Single- 

 Comb Observatory Hives, $8.00, $5.00, 

 $3 00 



Carniolan Bees and Queen in Single- 

 Comb Observatory Hives, $8.00, $5.00, 

 $3 00. 



Caucasian Bees and Queen in Single- 

 Comb Observatory Hives, $8.00, $5 00 

 $3.00. 



Largest and best display of Bees of 

 various races in Observatory Hives, 

 $10.00, $u.OO, $4.00. 



Largest display of Queens of varioiis 

 races in Mailing- Cages, 5.00, $3,00, 

 $2.00. 



Best Case White Comb Honey, $3.00, 

 12.00, $1.00. 



Best Case of Lig-ht Amber Comb 

 Honey, $2.50. $1.50. $1.00. 



Best and largest display of Comb 

 Honey, $10.00, $6.00, $4.00. 



Best display of Special Designs. 

 $3 00, $2.00, $1.00. 



Best Dozen Jars of White Extracted 

 Honey, $2.50, $1.50, $1.00. 



Best Dozen Jars of Light Amber Ex- 

 tracted Honey, $2.00, $1.00, .50c. 



Best and Largest display of Extract- 

 ed Honey, $8 00. $5.00, $3 00. 



Best d"isplay of Extracted Honey in 

 Granulated Form, «3.00, $2.00, $1.00. 



Best 10 lbs. Yellow Beeswax, $2.00, 

 $1.00, 50c. 



Best and Largest display of Beeswax, 

 $5.00, $3.00, $2.00. 



Best display Special Designs in 

 Beeswax, $3.00, $2.00, $1.00. 



Best display of Honev Producing- 

 Plants, Mounted, $3.00, $2.00, $1.00. 



Best display of Fruits Preserved in 

 Honey, $3.00, $2.00, $1.00. 



Most Instructive display of Apiarian 

 Products and of the various uses made 



of Honey and Beeswax, $20.00, $10.00, 

 $5.0.). 



The Colorado fair will be held in 

 Pueblo, Sept ll-l5th and the apiarian 

 department will be in charg-e of our 

 genial friend Frank Rauchfuss of 

 Denner. He will have an able assist- 

 ant in the person of Mr. J. A. Green, 

 of Grand Junction. 



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Criticisms on the Comb Honey Plan I 

 Published Last Month. 

 Last month I briefly outlined the 

 plan that I had long- followed in the 

 production of comb honey. I then 

 asked for criticisms. The first letter 

 on the subject is. from my old friend 

 Harry Lathrop, of Wisconsin, and it 

 reads as follows: 



Bkidgkport, Wis , June 26, 1905. 



Friend H. — 



You ask your readers to criticise 

 your plan of comb honey production 

 given on page 178 From mv point of 

 view, there is not much to be said in 

 criticism. I would only say that I 

 don't like the idea of contracting the 

 full-depth brood chamber in which the 

 swarm is hivcd. One rea.Son why I 

 alopted the eight-frame hive is, that it 

 can be used at all times and for all 

 purposes without contracting. Con- 

 tracting requires more fixings and 

 additional handling; and, furthermore, 

 bees, for me, do not do good work in 

 sections over dummies. I would rather 

 contract the comb honey super, than the 

 brood chamber that is under it. And if 

 an eight-frame comb honey super is 

 worked on a ten-frame brood chamber, 

 no extracting combs would be needed 

 in the comb honey department. Still, 

 1 think that the "plan of using a nice 

 white extracting comb in the sides of 

 the comb honey super is a splendid 

 idea. My method of contracting was 

 to hive on a seven-inch brood chamber, 

 and let the bees build their combs from 

 starters. They build mostly worker 

 comb, and these combs were used, after 

 the first year, for extracting combs. 



In hiving on full-depth frames I 

 always had the best success by using 

 full .sheets of comb foundation. 



I used a combination of the Heddon- 

 and shook-svvarming plans when work- 

 ing for comb honey, and one of the best 

 kinks of all was that of feeding the 

 working stock with young bees from 



