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honey and other apiarian exhibits at the 

 Fair; if I have failed to name any ex- 

 hibit, it has been because I have not 

 seen it. All those tliat came under my 

 notice have been included in the reports 

 I have made. 



As I promised above to say more in 

 regard to the reason why California has 

 not had a better exhibit of honey at 

 this Fair, I shall now do so. 



In a letter I received from one of the 

 executive or chief ofHicers of the Fair a 

 few weeks ago, that person stated that 

 sometime ago the said chief obtained a 

 pass on the railroads for one of the 

 leading bee-keepers of the State, so that 

 the said bee-keeper could go about 

 among the honey-producers and induce 

 them to make a creditable display of 

 California honey at the Fair ; the per- 

 son to whom the pass was issued visited 

 the Fair shortly after it was opened and 

 selected a place where the exhibit was 

 to be installed. This place, I have been 

 told, is the location where the main 

 honey exhibit is to be seen. The place 

 may have seemed suitable enough at the 

 time it was selected, but evidently since 

 then it has been clearly demonstrated 

 that it is anything but a suitable place. 

 When the sun is out in all its bright- 

 ness (and it comes out pretty hot some 

 times, even in "midwinter" in San 

 Francisco) it is hot indeed; and when 

 Old Sol comes streaming down through 

 a large glass dome, it is more than 

 doubly hot. Then, when it rains, and it 

 rains in the Pacific metropolis, too, 

 sometimes, the glass dome, like all 

 others of its kind, is apt to leak. This 

 it has done, and the goods that the rain- 

 water falls upon are sure to be more or 

 less injured. 



When I was at the Fair a few days 

 ago, it was a rainy day — yes, it was one 

 of those unusual days that we some- 

 times have in California — one of those 

 days that reminds the visitor of a sum- 

 mer's day at home when it is apt to rain 

 almost without a moment's notice; well, 

 as I was going to say, it rained quite 

 hard, and the rain came through the 

 leaky roof in splendid style. The con- 

 sequence was that some of the honey 

 exhibits got wet. I do not think any of 

 them were damaged, though. 



But to the question under considera- 

 tion. The Chief of the Department was 

 surprised that the bee-keepers were not 

 better represented, especially since he 

 expected that the gentlemen for whom 

 he had obtained the courtesies of the 

 railroad company, had given him hopes 

 of a splendid exhibit. 



I do not think that the fault of the I 



getting up of a suitable exhibit of Cali- 

 fornia honey lies altogether with the 

 bee-keeper alluded to; I think, as I 

 know him to be an energetic young man, 

 that he was not idle in the matter in- 

 trusted to him. It is possible that he 

 called upon and tried to persuade a num- 

 ber of our bee-keepers to send a lot of 

 honey to the Fair, so that we could 

 make a fine showing, but the said bee- 

 keepers did not take any interest in the 

 subject. I am led to this belief, as I 

 have heard that our bee-keepers do not 

 take that interest in California bee- 

 matters that they should. I may be 

 mistaken ; if I am, I am willing to be 

 corrected. 



At any rate, this has been another 

 golden opportunity that California bee- 

 keepers, like they did at Chicago last 

 year, failed to take advantage of. It 

 was not so much the fault of our bee- 

 keepers that they were unrepresented 

 at the Columbian Fair as it was the 

 management of the California World's 

 Fair Commission. The latter would do 

 nothing to help them get up a suitable 

 exhibit of the product of the California 

 bee-hive. 



As the matter stands, there is enough 

 California honey displayed about the 

 Fair grounds to show that this State 

 can produce beautiful honey from Del 

 Norte to San Diego, and from the Sierras 

 to the Sea. 



North Temescal, Calif., May 28. 



Pollen in Sectlons-Bee-Manaiement. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY JOHN CRAYCKAFT. 



I should have replied to Dr. Miller's 

 question on page 491 before this, but 

 bees-ness was pressing. 



Yes, there will be some pollen to in- 

 terfere with the sections below, and I 

 only suggested such work in the event 

 that the apiarist could see nothing bet- 

 ter to be done. But such practice is not 

 best or economical with practical work. 

 Double up until you have strong colo- 

 nies, and then my method will prove to 

 be as nearly a perfect success as is usual 

 in the course of Nature, there always 

 being exceptions to all general rules. 



My hives are square inside, 14j^xl4Ji 

 inches. Langstroth depth frames set 

 across the entrance, so there is very 

 little trouble with them to work this 

 way. 



1 also rear all queen-cells over a 

 strong colony. I take an upper story, 



