He that is faithful in that wliich is least, is faithful also in much.— LuK2 16:10. 



MYSELF AND MY NEIGHBORS. 



THE OHIO STATE F.AIll AT COI.UMBU! 

 DISPLAY OF HONEY, ETC. 



TT seemed almost impossible this year that 

 M I conld visit tiie state Fair at all; but 

 ^i perhaps it may be worth something to 

 ^ you to know how much can be done in a 

 short time. The tinishing of our new 

 factory, putting in the new machinery, etc., 

 requires my presence almost constantly ; 

 but the workmen finally concluded I could 

 be away one day, without making very much 

 trouble. Accordingly. Neighbor II. and I 

 figured up that, Viy making a very early start 

 in the morning, we could strike "the train at 

 a station about Iti miles distant, so we could 

 reach Columbus about one o'clock in the aft- 

 ernoon. To get home that same night, we 

 Avere obliged to take the train again at 5 

 P.M., and make another buggy-ride across 

 the country, between the small hours of 11 

 and 1 o'clock at night, giving us just four 

 hours on the fairgrounds. Well, we planned 

 every thing so that nothing should interrupt 

 us during these four hours. We took a 

 lunch on the cars, so as to Ije ready to go 

 through the grounds with a rush ; and I 

 confess I rather enjoyed my hasty visit. 

 Our new fairgrounds, near the Experimental 

 Farm, are a wonder. Forty-one beautiful 

 spacious buildings contain the exhibits, 

 farm stock, etc., and the architectural beau- 

 ty of these buildings was, to me, simply a 

 wonder. They cost a pile of money, it is 

 true : but I think the State of Ohio can well 

 afford such an investment for the encourage- 



ment of her rural industries. Of course, 

 they don't have any beer on the Ohio Fair- 

 grounds, and the railroad companies have 

 helped to manage the thing so that the beer- 

 men have not been able to get a saloon very 

 near the entrance. The saloons were fewer 

 in number, and smaller in dimensions, than 

 they were a year ago, and it really looks as if 

 they were going to get ashamed of them- 

 selves, and vanish from the presence and 

 sight of an intelligent Christian people. 



The honey display was finer than any 

 thing I had ever before seen in the State of 

 Ohio. I would call especial attention to the 

 display of both comb and extracted honey 

 by Mr. ^V . S. (ioodrich, of Worthington, 

 Franklin C-o., Ohio. The display was very 

 large, and the honey had a crystal clearness 

 that astonished everybody. 



'' Friend (t.," said I, " I suppose this is, of 

 course, clover honey ; but how do you ac- 

 count for its beautiful light color and trans- 

 parency V " 



" Why, Mr. Hoot," replied he, " if I have 

 made no mistake, this wliole crop of honey is 

 from ((hike chircr. The drought was so bad 

 tliat white clover was almost used u]), and 1 

 am afraid I should have had no honey-crop 

 at all iiad it not been for my eight acres of 

 alsike." 



1 give this for the encouragement of those 

 who are thinking of raising alsike as a for- 

 age and honey ))lant. We have had abun- 

 dant evidence of its worth tor hay for milch 

 cows, and now it seems as if it would really 

 pay to raise it for honey alone. 



Our good friend Mrs. Jennie Culp was 



