Vol. XII. 



OCT. 1, 1884. 



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NOTES FKOM THE BANNER APIAKY. 

 Or, to be More Correct, I will Say, 



NOTES FKOM THE STATE FAIR. • 



T is eight o'clock p. m., und 1 am in my room in 

 the third story of a hotel in Flint, Midi. I am 

 on my way home from making an apiarian ex- 

 hibit at our State Fair. I am very tired and 

 sleepy, and the bed looks .so tempting-! but, the 

 Northeastern Micliigau Fair begins here to-morrow, 

 and a drayman is engaged to take my " traps and 

 calamities" to the grounds earbj in the morning, 

 and, if 1 tell you anything about the apiarian e.\- 

 hibition at the State Fair, I must do it to-night or it 

 will not reach you in time lor the October No. 



The building, if 1 remember rightly, was 38 x 48, 

 with raised platforms 7 feet wide at the sides and 

 ends, and a table four feet wide in the center. The 

 building was litcraUy filled to overflowing, for Geo. 

 K. Hubbard, the patent-hive man, built a neat little 

 "shed" outside in which to exhibit his hive, nuclei, 

 and fancifully built specimens of honey. He was 

 the last exhibitor to arrive, and every available foot 

 of space was taken. Prof. Cook pronounced the 

 exhibition the largest and finest he had ever seen 

 in the United States. Entering the building at the 

 Northeast corner, the first exhibition is that of Mr. 

 H. D. Cutting, consisting of his hive, a show-case of 

 books (81 volumesi, a Langstroth hive, the side walls 

 of which were constructed of straw held in an up- 

 right position by wires, something as are the slatted 

 or wooden honey-boards or mats sold by friend 

 Root. The side Avails were perhaps an inch and a 

 balf thick. He also had some other impleracnts. 



such as queen-cages, honey-knives, bee-feeders, sec- 

 tion boxes, smokers, etc. He had samples of 1.5 dif- 

 ferent kinds of honey, upon which he secured first 

 premiums, outnumbering Mr. M. H. Hunt by one or 

 two specimens. lu his usual unselfish manner he 

 did not make a very large exhibit, not caring so 

 much to secure a large amount of premiums as to 

 make a success of the icholc exhibition. He is al- 

 ways on hand to help somebody. (Oh! I tell you, 

 friends, dame Nature is asserting herself, and I 

 must go to bed ; but I'll be up at daybreak, or be- 

 fore, and tell you all about it). 



1 have just dressed myself, and it's six o'clock, 

 and what I write must be written hurriedly. The 

 next exhibitor after Mr. Cutting was E. E. Mason, 

 son of Dr. A. B. Mason, of Wagon Works, O. He ex- 

 hibited a Given press and a Vandervort machine ; 

 and I must say that the Vandervort makes the best 

 fdn. of any roller machine 1 have ever seen. The 

 wall space above the exhibits of Messrs. Cutting 

 and Mason w-as occupied by C. M. Weed, who ex- 

 hibited between fifty and sixty fine specimens of 

 honey- producing plants, pressed and mounted. 

 Mr. Weed possesses, in a high degree, the skill re- 

 quired for preparing botanical as well as entomolo- 

 gical specimens. 



The first exhibitor at the cast .'ud of the south 

 side of the hall was Dr. Mcsse, of Delaware, Ohio. 

 His exhibit consisted of a display of both comb and 

 extracted honey, a Uoot fdn. mill, a one-frame nu- 

 cleus, collections of (|ueens, quoen-eggs, honey- 

 knife, etc. The remainder of the south side was oc- 

 cupied by my brother and myself. 



My brother's exhibit consisted of a speciman of 

 comb honey, a display of four colonies of ditt'er- 

 cnt varieties of bees, a collection of queen-bees, and a 



