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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



JVLY 1. 



good 'thing lo get these unknown friends on 

 record. A. J. Cook. 



1. Agricultural College, Mich., May 31. 



WORLD'S FAIR. 



APIARIAN EXHIBIT. 



The apiarian exhibit to be made at the 

 World's Fair next year was written about by 

 Dr. Mason, on page 7(30 of last week's Bee Jour- 

 nal. Reference was therein made to something 

 that Mr. W. I. Buchanan. Chief of the Agricul- 

 tural Department, would publish soon, regard- 

 ing the bee and honey exhibit. Below we give 

 the special rules, and also an illustration of the 

 proposed glass cases in which the exhibit will 

 be made. We commend what Mr. Buchanan 

 has to say, to the attention of our readers, and 

 trust that they may now begin to prepare for 

 one of the grandest apiarian shows that the 

 world has ever seen. Here are the " Special 

 rules and information governing the exhibit of 

 Bees. Honey. Beeswax, and Bee-appliances:"" 



1. Exhibits of honey will be classified as follows: 



Class 1. Clover and basswood. 

 Class 2. White sage. 

 Class 3. Buckwheat. 



Class i. All light honey, other than enumerated in Classes 1 

 and 2. 

 Class 5. All dark honey, other than enumerated in Class 3. 



Chief of tlie Department for :i limited exhibit of 

 bees. 



11. Collections of honey-producing' plants, suita- 

 bly mounted and labeled, will be accepted if satis- 

 factory to the CI lief of the Department. 



12. The right is reserved to add to, amend, or in- 

 terpret tlie above rules. 



Signed, W. I. Buchanan, 



Chief of Dept. of Ay. 

 Approved, Geo. R. Davis, 



Director General. 

 —American Bee J<iurnal, June 16. 



Lad/es' Conversazione. 



NURSING BEES UNPROFITABLE. 



VALUE OF THE APIAKY AND FIXTURES 

 THE DECEASE OF THE OWNER. 



Mr. Editor:— \ have been impressed with the 

 idea of late, that we should not advise a person 

 who has a young family dependent upon him 

 for support to invest all his means in bees and 

 fixtures unless his wife or some other person 

 connected with him works with him and learns 

 how to. take care of them. If he should be 

 called away by death it would take a pretty 

 large apiary to bring enough ready money to 



The dimensions are as follows: Height of base, 18 inches; width of case, n feet; lieight of case above 

 base (inside measure), 6 feet. Total heiglit, » feet. It lias sliding doors on both sides. 



2. Exhibits of honey produced during 1892, or ear- 

 lier, must be in place on or before April 20, 1893. 



3. Exliibits of lioney in Classes 1, 2, and 4, produc- 

 ed during 1893, will be received between July 15 and 

 Aug. 15; and in Classes 3 and 5 between Aug. 15 and 

 Sept. 1, 1893. 



4. The following infoi'mation should accompany 

 eacli exhibit. 



a. Kind of honey. 



b. Name of exhibitor. 



c. Place where produced. 



d. Character of soil in locality where produced. 



e. Variety of bee. 



f. Name of plant from which honey was produced. 



g. Yield per colony. 



h. -\verage price of product at nearest home market. 



5. In order to secure a uniform, handsome, and 

 economical installation of honey and beeswax, the 

 Exposition will erect suitable glass cases, of a uni- 

 form character, in which such exhibits will be 

 made; tlie cost of these cases to be borne by the 

 different State Commissions, Bee-keepers' Associa- 

 tions, or by individual exhibitors, in proportion to 

 the number of lineal feet occupied. These cases 

 will become the property of sucli exhibitors at the 

 close of the Exposition. Bt-low is a very good illus- 

 tration (if the proposed cases. 



6. Individual exhibits of comb honey will be lim- 

 ited to lUO pounds, and may be made in any manner 

 the exhibitor may desire, subject to the approval of 

 the Chief of the Department. 



7. Individual exhibits of extracted honey must be 

 made in glass, and must not exceed :"0 pounds. 



8. Individual exhibitsof beeswa.v must not exceed 

 50 pounds, and should be prepared in such a man- 

 ner as will add to the attractiveness of the exhibit. 



9. Exhibits of primitive and modern appliances 

 used in bee culture, both in this country and 

 abroad, will be received, sul ject to the approval of 

 the Chief of the Department. 



10. Special arrangements will be made by the 



bury him. I have known of several estates, 

 consisting of bees and fixtures, which brought 

 nothing in comparison to their real value. The 

 reason of this, in a measure, is due to the ad- 

 ministrator and heirs not being posted, and 

 advertise only in their county papers: while if 

 in bee-periodicals it might fall under the notice 

 of an apiarist who desires to increase the size 

 of his apiary, or start an out one. and pay some- 

 thing nearer their value than they would bring 

 at auction among those who cared little or 

 nothing for them. 



The administrator of an estate called lately 

 to consult me with reference to some bees be- 

 longing to it. The owner died in January; it 

 was then June, and they had not been disturb- 

 ed in the least. I went to see them, out of curi- 

 osity, for I had been very much interested in 

 reading how Mrs. Axtell nursed her colonies, 

 and I wanted to see what were her ways in 

 comparison with bees that had not been cared 

 for in the least. I found the colonies located 

 on the east side of a light board fence, on a 

 platform about a foot from the ground. The 

 hives were placed pretty closely together, and 

 the space between them packed with straw, 

 with chaff cushions in the upper story, and well 

 protected from rain. There had been nineteen 

 colonies packed together in the fall, and eleven 

 were living and ten quite strong, and one weak. 

 Their owner was a dear good old soul, and a 

 lover of bees; and I think that, if he had been 

 living, and cleaned their hives, spreading brood, 

 feeding, and puc hot bricks to their feet, and 

 fomentations on their heads, there would not 



