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ceptable. Here is what Mr., Mrs. or Miss 

 Far West has to say about the matter : 



Mr. Editor :— Isn't it a little strange 

 that so little progress is made in the East, 

 and that they still cling to the ways of 

 thinking that were fashionable when our 

 grandfathers were boys ? It is necessary 

 to travel West in order to see things 

 clearly. There's that man Hershiser, a well- 

 meaning sort of person, no doubt, but Dr. 

 Mason is having a hard time to get him to 

 see that when a case of honey is seen at a 

 Fair, the whole of the honey in the case is 

 not on exhibition, but only that which is 

 in sight. But then Hershiser has lived in 

 New York all his life. 



When I lived in that State, I took to a 



should say was on exhibition, so I showed 

 him what I had, and asked him how I 

 should enter it — how much honey I should 

 enter. •' Why, my dear sir, said he. •' you 

 have no honey on exhibition. You see, we 

 only count what can be seen as on exhibi- 

 tion. No mattejr how much honey may be 

 in the case, no one sees anything but the 

 surface, and that's just the cappiugs. so the 

 proper way to enter your exhibit will be to 

 enter so much white wax. Of course I 

 could see it plainly enough, as soon as my 

 attention was called to it. 



And yet there is that wrangle over an 

 exhibit of white beeswax at the World's 

 Fair, disputing as to the amount of honey, 

 when there is no honey on exhibition at all. 



Far West. 



No. 1. — The IlUnois State Honey Exhibit at the World's Fair. 



Fair a case containing one-pound sections. 

 It was credited to me as a display of 24 

 pounds of comb honey, just as it would be 

 credited if I lived there to-day. When I 

 moved to Ohio. I entered at a Fair a similar 

 case, as 24 pounds of comb honey. I was 

 politely informed that I had only (> pounds 

 of honey on exhibition, as only G sections 

 could be seen through the glass of the case, 

 and the other sections not being in sight 

 could not be considered on exhibition. 



After moving farther West. 1 tried the 

 same thiug, but learned that as only one 

 side of each section could be seen, it could 

 only be said that 3 lbs. were on exhibition. 



Last year I moved still farther West, to 

 the place where I now live. I took a 24- 

 pound case of honey to the Fair, but didn't 

 feel exactly certain how much honey I 



X'lie Illiiioiiii Honey l-]xlii1»it at 



the World's Fair is a very great attraction. 

 Bros. J. M. Hambaugh and Jas. A. Stone 

 are entitled to much credit for the fine dis- 

 play that they have installed for the bee- 

 keepers of the State of Illinois. Consider- 

 ing the exceedingly limited time in which 

 they had to complete the exhibit, it is in- 

 deed a remarkable showing of the industry 

 in this State. 



In order that the description of the illus- 

 trations of the exhibits may be better un- 

 derstood, we number them as follows : 



No. 1. — The first show-case you approach 

 from the north has the " Honej' Castle," 



