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to have all the editors of the bee-pa- 

 pers visit the Bay State Apiary. YA- 

 itors, like lawyers, quarrel sometimes, 

 but they do not despise or hate each 

 other. I hope the day is not far dis- 

 tant when Bro. Newman, at any rate, 

 can get as far as Wenham. We have 

 met him in New York and Philadelphia 

 and would go that distance again to 

 spend a few hours in his company. 

 Bros. Root and Jones we never had 

 the pleasure of meeting. We may 

 meet face to face by and by. 



Mr. Ernest Root has been up in 

 York state to see Mr. Doolittle. We 

 hope Bro. D. gave Ernest as cordial 

 a greeting as he did the writer, at the 

 Candee house in Syracuse, N.Y., some 

 ten years ago. We shall never forget 

 our visit to the above city — no, never. 



Bees and poultry. 



Bro. D. A. Jones publishes a good 

 bee-paper, also a good poultry-paper. 

 The latter is the best paper of the kind 

 that comes to our office, and we get a 

 good many such papers during the 

 year. This mixing of poultry and bees 

 or, in fact, anything else with bees I 

 do not like. Bro. Jones did a good 

 thing when he decided to publish two 

 distinct papers. 



Exhibiting bees and honey at fairs. 



A few weeks ago Mr. E. L. Pratt 

 requested me to send some sample 

 copies of the Api to W. A. Green, 

 Providence, R. 1., to distribute at the 

 Rhode Island state fair. The papers 

 were sent and I also took a notion to 

 run down one day to see how the bee- 

 keepers of that little state did things 

 in the display of bees at their fair. 

 Well, I must say that I was surprised 

 at what 1 saw before I had passed in- 

 to the room where the bees and honey 

 were on exhibition. There were bees 

 in one frame (observatory) hives, and 

 full colonies in hives having glass on 

 all four sides, and not only that, the 

 sections were on the hives, and many 

 of them were full of honey and bees. 

 The hives were made for the occasion 



and all were very handsomely and 

 so nicely arranged that the visitors 

 could see the bees, combs and honey 

 and get a good idea of how bees 

 "make" honey. 



One large room was filled, yes 

 crammed full of bees and honey, both 

 in comb and extracted ; honey in large 

 frames, honey in small sections and 

 extracted honey in all sorts of fancy 

 glass jars and bottles. 



Among the exhibitors who deserve 

 special mention is Dr. G. M. Marchant 

 of Warren, R. I. The Doctor was 

 awarded the first premium for the 

 largest and best display of extracted 

 honey. 1 understood that Dr. Mar- 

 chant is only a novice in bee culture. 

 Whether a novice or an old vet., his 

 display was very fine and would do an 

 old beekeeper credit. 



Robert Nevins took first premium 

 for best general display of comb hon- 

 ey and apiarian fixtures. 



The R. I. Apicultural Experimental 

 Station, Samuel Cushmau, apiarist, had 

 a large exhibit of hives, honeys and 

 bee furniture generally ; in fact, one 

 large room was filled with hives of all 

 patterns except the Bay State. Many 

 of the hives shown there were fit for 

 nothing but chicken coops, or for 

 kindling a fire. Several of the hives 

 were so large that they woidd proba- 

 bly let readily for tenements to small 

 families. A person intending to start 

 an apiary of 100 colonies in such hives 

 would have to order lumber by the 

 carload. I would not give one of 

 Root's dovetail hives, one of which I 

 saw there, or one of our Bay State 

 hives for all the others on exhibi- 

 tion. Just why the R. I. Apicultural 

 Experimental Station want such a 

 large number of old anti-deluvian 

 packing boxes in their way rather 

 puzzles me. 



Mr. W. A. Green, of Providence, 

 had a colony of Carniolan bees on ex- 

 hibition that he purchased at the Bay 

 State apiary in the spring of 1890. 

 The bees had increased to two colo- 

 nies and had stored 125 pounds of 



