International Exhibition. 



The great International exhibition of 

 bees, honey, hives and apiarian supplies 

 generally, will be held at Prague, Bo- 

 hemia, Sept. 7-11, 1879, at the time 

 of the celebrated annual meeting of the 

 apiarists of Germany and Austria. 

 Americans are solicited to make a good 

 display of apiarian utensils, bees, honey, 

 &c. All such must be sent from this 

 country by about August 10th, to be re- 

 ceived in time. The Kapid Foreign 

 Express Co., 100 Dearborn street, Chi- 

 cago, will forward goods at the rate of 

 about $6.50 per 100 pounds in weight, or 

 less. Mr. N\ E. Dillie is the agent in 

 this city. All such should be addressed 

 to " Mr. R. Mayerhoeffer, NeustadtNo. 

 747, Prague, Bohemia, Europe." 



This exhibition will contain, (1) liv- 

 ing bees, (2) bee-hives, apiarian imple- 

 ments and tools ; (3) antiquated bee- 

 hives, not now in use, for the historical 

 section ; (4) honey and wax, and divers 

 preparations of them, likewise honey- 

 cakes of all kinds, honey-wine, etc. ; (5) 

 bee-papers and bee-literature generally. 



Mr. Mayerhoeffer in a recent letter 

 says : 



"For scenery and decoration, we desire 

 Americans to provide their own— the Stars 

 and Stripes may flutter by the side of our 

 Imperial Double Eagle. We invite Ameri- 

 can bee-keepers to come in profuse numbers. 

 They will be welcomed in a most friendly 

 manner. 



"We guarantee to all American exhibit- 

 ors, to buy their goods if they will consent 

 to take one-third of the payment in tickets 

 to our prize distributions, which are sold at 

 10 cents each, American money. 



" It will be interesting to the readers of 

 the American Bee Journal to know that 

 our Crown Prince is also a bee-keeper. He 

 takes a very great interest in it, and I have 

 lately been appointed his tutor in bee- 

 keeping. 



"For the exhibition, prizes are fixed by 

 the Austrian government, consisting of sil- 

 ver and gold medals. The Society of Bee- 

 Friends will also award medals of gold, 

 silver and bronze, as well as diplomas." 



JGg^The Executive Committee of the 

 National Association has gotten up some 

 illustrated diplomas which may be used by 

 Vice Presidents at honey shows in their re- 

 spective States. They will be forwarded to 

 Vice Presidents free, by mail, upon appli- 

 cation to this office. 



Dr. E. Gallup, who figured largely in 

 the Bee Journal as a vigorous writer some 

 years ago, is now at Scenega, California. He 

 is delighted with the climate, and thinks of 

 locating there. 



1^° Mr. J. Pometta has already started 

 from Europe with a shipment of Italian 

 queens,Jand expects to be in Chicago about 

 the middle of this month with them, as will 

 be seen by his advertisement elsewhere. 



Clarification of Honey.— Lod- 

 wig's Patent Alumina, a pasty sub- 

 stance containing about 10 per cent, of 

 anhydrous alumina, is prepared by pre- 

 cipitating sodium aluminate with lime, 

 dissolving the calcium aluminate ob- 

 tained in hydrochloric acid, and then 

 adding to this solution containing alu- 

 minium and calcium chlorides an equal 

 weight of calcium aluminate. This 

 causes all the alumina to separate in 

 form of a gelatinous precipitate, while 

 the calcium remains in solution as chlo- 

 ride. To use this for the clarification 

 of honey, ten kilograms of the latter 

 are mixed with twenty kilograms of 

 water, and the mixture brought to the 

 boiling point. Then 300 grams of the 

 patent alumina, somewhat thinned with 

 water, are stirred in, the whole once 

 more brought to aboil, then set aside for 

 one night. Finally the honey is strained 

 and evaporated in a steam bath to the 

 proper consistency. If the honey ex- 

 hibits an acid reaction it should be 

 treated with some magnesium carbon- 

 ate previous to adding the alumina. — 

 Pharm. Zeitg., XXIII. , No. 79. 



Grape Sugar.— From time to time 

 the readers of the apiarian department 

 of the Michigan Farmer have been 

 warned against the use of grape sugar 

 in any form in the apiary. Even if its 

 use in place of sugar syrup or honey, for 

 stimulative purposes or winter stores, 

 were not likely to bring about disas- 

 trous results, I would very much doubt 

 the economy of the practice. It costs 

 less per pound than cane sugar or 

 honey, but it contains much less sweet- 

 ness. The following extract from a 

 letter received last month from a 

 Michigan bee-keeper, shows the way 

 its use has resulted in most instances— 

 or at least one way, for it has often 

 been the cause of disease also : " Grape 

 sugar killed my bees. I made a syrup 

 of about two parts grape sugar and 

 one part coffee sugar; and the bees 

 would eat out the coffee sugar and 

 starve with the grape sugar all hard in 

 the cells." — Michigan Farmer. 



