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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



[September. 



15 are to appear in single frame nu- 

 cleus. Each nucleus must contain a 

 queen. Nos. 15 to 17 may be shown 

 as exhibitor desires. 



11. For the best Italians. 



12. For the best black or German 

 bees. 



13. For the best Carniolan bees. 



14. Varieties not scheduled. 



15. For the best display of bees. 



16. For the best display of queen 

 bees ready for shipment. 



17. For the best display of a queen 

 rearing outfit, showing cells in dif- 

 ferent stages of development. 



18. General Display. For the best 

 display of bees, honey, wax, bee fur- 

 niture, etc. Exhibitor given full free- 

 dom. Products and bees must be of 

 his own raising. Please write to Sec- 

 retary that space may be reserved. 



1,9. Cookery. For the best cake 

 made with honey. Recipe attached. 



20. For the best cookies made with 

 honey. 



21. For the best, display of cake, 

 cookies, and confectionery made witb 

 honey. 



22. Photography. Photograph of 

 a swarm of bees. 



23. Best photograph of a New Eng- 

 land apiary. 



Displays not scheduled above are 

 solicited. Meritorious exhibits will be 

 awarded a diploma. Manufacturers, 

 tradesmen, and publishers are urged 

 to make a display. Free space will 

 be awarded each applicant. Points of 

 merit are neatness, perfection of work- 

 manship, as well as instructiveness 

 and general efifectiveness of display. 



Communications may be addressed 

 either to the secretary or to A. A. 

 Hixon, Horticultural Hall, Worcester, 

 Mass. 



There will be Jectures by people 

 prominent in the bee world both days 

 of the fair. 



Very truly yours, 

 A. H. Estabrook, Sec'y- 



Clark Universitv. Worcester, Mass. 



SAYS HE WANTS TO KNOW. 



Dear Mr. Editors: 



I want to know if you know as much 

 as the editors of the other papers? T 

 want to know if as much of it is not 

 so? I want to know why if some of 

 the sorts of hives are so much better 



than others they have to be advertis- 

 ed so hard? I want to know what 

 happened to the Caucassian boom? I 

 want to know why it is Banats now? 

 I want to know why if the bees built 

 the comb against the glass as stated in 

 Gleanings August ist, that they left 

 so many big pieces of broken cell 

 walls lying about? I want to know if 

 Dayton puts those corkscrew tins in 

 his hives with the breakfast food on 

 them? I want to know if those bees 

 in the Cincinnati church work on Sun- 

 days? I want to know if the Kali- 

 fornia Kinklet takes fresh or used 

 tooth picks to fasten the combs in 

 with? I want to know if uses them 

 over again? I want to know if he 

 uses a one legged or a three legged 

 stool to milk his bees with? I want 

 to know if he wears it behind hitched 

 to his belt with the leg sticking down 

 like a tail? If so I want to know what 

 he does when his best girl goes by? I 

 want to know if the size of the cell 

 determines the kind of egg the queen 

 puts in it and if so what would happen 

 if she laid in a bushel basket? Would 

 the bee from it work on catnip, tur- 

 nip or seaweed? I want to know if 

 a Roc's egg sawed across would not 

 make good cell cups? I want to know 

 if queens reared in them would have 

 umbilical cords? I want to know if 

 the benevolent supply men would sup- 

 ply us with Roc's egg cell cups for a 

 modest consideration, just to accom- 

 modate us? I want to know if queens 

 from such cell cups would call for 

 new sorts of hives? I want to know 

 if we would have to have a new sort 

 of flowers (seed for sale cheap to 

 your readers) for them to work on? 

 If we had to have new hive I want 

 to know if we would have to use an 

 enlarged hand stump puller to lift 

 them with? If we had such hives 1 

 want to know if the lady bee keepers 

 would have to take a course of les- 

 sons in Amazonian development? (by 

 mail cheap.) If so I want to know if 

 the men would retain even their im- 

 agined supremacy? 



There is a lot more I want to know 

 but I want these answered first. 

 Please oblige a constant reader, and 

 say my old brindle cow, the one that 

 kicked you when you were here, has 

 got twin calves and I planted the pure 



