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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



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showcHl that the age and amount of 

 jt'lly amounted to little, as the nurse 

 bees take tliat business in hand and 

 feed according to their own notions. 



You probably want to know what 

 quoeu 1 knew produced the prettiest 

 bees, and that is an easy question. An 

 Albino mated to a Golden drone, mak- 

 inj;; a five-band Albino worker. Oh, 

 what beauties! They were very gentle, 

 and weie good workei'S, 



The best workers? Wt^ll, that is 

 harder to aiiswer, as I have known quite 

 a number that were extraordinary. But 

 try all I may, I can't pass a colony 

 headed by a Holyland queen mated in 

 an apiary of three-band Italians. 

 These, too, were pretty, but a veil came 

 in handy when I was any where near. 



Becville, Tenn. 



PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION. 



The Wonderful Work Which Will Attract 



Millions of People to Buffalo 



Next Year. 



THE Bureau of Publicity of the Pan- 

 American Exposition has just 

 issued a very complete booklet 

 descriptive of the enterprise to be held at 

 Buffalo next year. The booklet contains 

 forty-eight pages with one hundred and 

 twenty-one titles and eighty-two illus- 

 trations. The publicity up to the pres- 

 ent tiiut; has been piecemeil, bringing 

 out the various features as they have 

 developed, but an examination of tliis 

 booklet gives to the reader a very com- 

 prehensive idea of the splendid charac- 

 ter of the Exposition. 



The total cost of the Exposition, exclu- 

 sive of exhibits, is now estimated at 

 SIO.000.000. Of this amount about 

 $3,003,000 will be expended upon tlie Mid- 

 way. The sum for the Midw.iy is more 

 than the total cost of some very jiretentious 

 expositions, so that by comparison one may 

 gain a very fair idea of the work which 

 Buffalo is carrying rapidly to completion. 

 A beautiful lamlscape comprising three 



hundred and fifty acres, half a mile wide 

 and a mile ami a <iuarter long, is devcted 

 to this wonderful enterprise. 



The word "Pan" as a prefix to America 

 means All — that is to say, the exposition is 

 for all the Americas, exhibits from 

 Euroix;an countries not being accepted. 

 It is claimed for the Pan-American Exposi- 

 tion'that it will be the most artistic creation 

 of the kind ever brought into existance. It 

 will excel all former expositions in its 

 court settings, having thirty-thiee acres of 

 courts alone, upon which to bestow the 

 wonderful eml)ellishments of fountains and 

 cascades, pools and lakes, canals and la- 

 goons, lawns and gardens. The twenty or 

 more great structures which are to shelter 

 the exhibits gathered from all corners of 

 the Western Hemisphere and from all the 

 island possessions of the United States will 

 surround these courts. Every building is 

 richly adorned with plastic oinanu'utation 

 anil tinted in accordance with a magnificent 

 color scheme under the direction of Charles 

 Y. Turner, the leading artist of the world 

 in this work. 



No exposition has ever undertaken such 

 an extensive use of sculpture for decorative 

 purposes. This work is under the master 

 direction of Karl Bittei-, who has added to 

 the va^t knowledge and infinite skill which 

 gave him the loading position at the 

 World's Fair at Chicago, the experience of 

 seven more years of a-ctivity in his pro- 

 fession. Under his direction thirty or 

 more sculptors, embracing all the leading 

 artists of this class in the United States, are 

 at work upon more thin (uie hundred and 

 twenty-five groujis of original sculpture. 



In the use of electric lights for decorative 

 purposes this exposition will outshine all 

 former undertakings. Owing to the near- 

 ness of Niagara Falls, with inilimiteid elec- 

 tric power, the Pan-American ExiX)sition 

 has at hand a large volume of energy 

 which will be employed to whatever ex- 

 tent may be necessary to produce the most 

 brilliant, fantastic and beautiful electric 

 lighting effects the world has ever seen. 

 The exhibits of the exposition are divided 

 into about twenty classes and embrace 



