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A Phenomenal If oney-Year, so 



far, is what Bro. E. R. Root called 1893, in 

 Gleaninijs for July 15th. In commenting 

 upon the reports of the honey crop that he 

 has received, Bro. Root says : 



Never, since we have had charge of the 

 editorial management of Gleaidnyn so far as 

 it relates to bees, have we read so many re- 

 ports showing phenomenal honey-flows. 

 Why, if you look over our shoulder, as the 

 letters come in day by day. you would 

 think that a veritable and prolonged honey- 

 shower had struck the country ; and the 

 end is not yet. The season with us com- 

 menced about three weeks ago, and the bees 

 are stiU working on clover, and basswood 

 is just beginning to open up. This state of 

 affairs seems to be existing in nearly all of 

 the Northern and Middle States, from 

 ocean to ocean. Yes, the California crop is 

 going to be good, too. More than all this, 

 the crop, besides being unusually large, is 

 remarkably choice. All samples that have 

 been coming in were of about one grade — 

 extra nice ; and the producers, almost with 

 one accord, write that they have tons and 

 tons of that kind of honey. 



Our reports have not been so uniformly 

 good, but, in the main, we should judge 

 that the crop of honey this year will be 

 quite satisfactory. In such a large country 

 as the United States, we are not surprised 

 that. in some localities there should be a 

 failure of the honey crop. We hope, how- 

 ever, that by the time snow flies again, 

 every part of our land may be able to re- 

 port at least a fair yield. 



Xlie ]^e>v York Honey Exlii1>it 



at the World's Fair is one of the great, big 

 attractions in the Agricultural Building. 

 It occupies a floor space approximately 

 30x50 feet. 



The display is in two exhibition cases 

 each 25 feet long, 11 feet high, and 5 feet 

 wide: two cases each 10 feet long, 11 feet 

 high, and 5 feet wide ; and one case 18 feet 

 long, 11 feet high, and 5 feet wide. The 

 last case is devoted to the exhibition of 

 bees. The aggregate length of the exhibi- 

 tion cases is therefore 88 feet. 



The floor of the cases is 2)^ feet from the 

 floor of the gallery upon which the cases 

 rest, and the ornamentation around the 

 top of the cases is l}{ feet high. The inside 

 dimensions of the cases are, therefore, 7 

 feet high by 4^ feet wide, and the lengths 

 as before given. 



The exhibit consists of about 5,000 pounds 

 of comb honey, and about 3,000 pounds of 

 extracted. The bulk is linden and clover, 

 and smaller exhibits of honey from buck- 



wheat, fruit-bloom, golden-rod, aster, su- 

 mac, heart's-ease, raspberry, mustard, 

 sweet clover and boneset. 



This enormous exhibit of beautifiU honey 

 occupies 33^ times the space taken by the 

 display of any other State or foreign ex- 

 hibit, and New York has on exhibition 

 more than ten times as much comb honey 

 of the finest quality as any other State or 

 foreign exhibit ; and three times as much 

 comb honey as is contained in aU the other 

 exhibits combined. The comb honey was 

 kept over winter with great care, in a 

 steam-heated room where the mercury 

 never went below 50 degrees. 



Mr. O. L. Hershiser, the energetic Super- 

 intendent of the New York bee and honey 

 exhibit, has, with the aid of the bee-keepers 

 of that State, made an effort to bring out 

 an exhibit that will be a credit to all bee- 

 keepers, and one for which New York api- 

 arists need offer no apology. It is, indeed, 

 a very comprehensive exhibit, and a sur- 

 prise to those visitors that are not familiar 

 with the extent and importance of bee- 

 culture. 



Among the exhibitors and exhibits are 

 the following : 



Mr. G. M. Doolittle, of Borodino— Two 

 colonies of leather-colored bees, and one 

 colony of yellow Italians. One of these 

 colonies contains a very valuable queen, 

 which, Mr. Doolittle informed Mr. Her- 

 shiser, was worth 850 to any good apiarist, 

 for a breeder. Mr. Hershiser intends to 

 rear a few queens from her at the Fair, and 

 send them out while virgins, in order that 

 her progeny may be pei-petuated, in a small 

 way, at least. 



Mr. Hershiser's own exhibit consists of a 

 practical apiary of working bees, and 

 honey produced by the same. He has 

 already takeai off quite a quantity of comb 

 honey — probably the first that has ever 

 been actually harvested at any Pair. 



John Andrews, of Patten's Mills — Three 

 nuclei of Carniolan bees. 



John Woolf and Asa Saunders, of Big 

 Tree — One colony each of black bees. 



Mrs. M. L. Berry— Artistic wax-work — 

 sea-shells made by her from wax produced 

 by her own bees. 



J. Van Deusen & Sons, of Sprout Brook — 

 Flat-bottom comb foundation, and speci- 

 mens showing the readiness with which 

 bees accept it. 



The W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co., of James- 



