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magnitude of the exhibition relating to 

 our industry. 



Entries were made from 17 States and 

 Territories, but the principal exhibits were 

 from New York, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, 

 Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Indiana, Min- 

 nesota, California, and Ontario, Canada. 

 But from foreign countries entries were 

 made as follows : 



Russia 5, Greece 4, Costa Rica 7, Ceylon 

 2, Great Britain one very fine exhibit con- 

 tributed by over 100 members of the British 

 Bee-Keepers' Association; Brazil 5, Ger- 

 many 2. Haiti 3, Mexico 2, Gautemala 1, 

 Argentine Republic 3, Ecuador 1, Spain 3, 

 Ottoman Empire 3, Venezuela 1, Italy 3, 

 and Siam 1. Some of these foreign coun- 

 tries, though only making a single entry, 

 showed several varieties of honey. It was 

 generally in the extracted form. In the 

 Costa Rica building was shown some sec- 

 tions of comb honey in our American bass- 

 wood one-piece sections. At least they 

 looked like ours. 



Russia showed some very nice comb 

 foundation, a Russian extractor, hives, 

 models of hives, and a great variety of 

 apiarian appliances, besides extracted 

 honey and honey in glass sections. Bee- 

 keepers of that country are evidently read- 

 ing, and adopting many of our modern 

 notions. They have a wonderfully inter- 

 esting exhibit to American bee-keepers. 



One thing is noticeable, most of the 

 honeys of Central and South America re- 

 main liquid longer than northern honey. 

 Eugene Secor. 



A Section Scraper has been gotten 

 up by Thos. Johnson, of Iowa. It is a knife 

 that is a trifle over 6 inches long including 

 the handle, the blade being 2^^ inches long, 

 with a }^ inch extension j^ inch wide at the 

 end of the blade. Instead of the ordinary 

 cutting -edge, it is as dull as the back of an 

 ordinary case-knife, and is used for scrap- 

 ing off propolis, etc., from sections. Mr. 

 Johnson left a sample scraper on our desk, 

 and it looks as though it would do the 

 work well — he says it will. 



Xlie iVIinueapoliiii Honey-Slio^v 



was good, the premiums were liberal, and 

 everything moved off nicely. Messrs. Wm. 

 Urie, Minneapolis, John Turnbull, of La 

 Crescent,and C. Theilmann,of Theilmanton, 

 Minn., were the principal honey exhibitors. 

 In the Farm, Siurk and Home for Oct. 15th, 

 Mr. B. Taylor says, after just having visited 

 Minneapolis and St. Paul : 



We found the markets of the Twin Cities 

 well stocked with honey, and prices low. 

 But there has not been more than one- 

 third of a full crop of honey in Minnesota 

 this year, so do not rush your honey to city 



markets, for you thereby overstock them, 

 and make low prices certain. We are sell- 

 ing our entire crop in our home market at 

 fair prices, and we earnestly counsel others 

 to do the same. You need have no fears 

 about holding your honey, as the small 

 crop is sure to make a better market for it 

 later. 



Have You Tried to get a new sub- 

 scriber for the Bee Journal this fall ? We 

 offer to throw in the balance of this year 

 free to new subscribers for 1894, besides 

 their choice of one of the books offered to 

 them on the 5th page of this paper. Then 

 we also give a premium to a present sub- 

 scriber who will send in new ones. It seems 

 to us that our liberal offers this fall ought 

 induce every one of our readers to aid in 

 doubling the circulation of the Bee Jour- 

 nal within six months. Why not help do 

 this, and then see what a grand journal we 

 can furnish to everybody when once the 

 increased number of readers is secured ? If 

 each present reader would send only one 

 new subscriber besides his or her own re- 

 newal before Dec. 1st, the thing would be 

 done. Will you do it, reader ? 



l>r. O. S. Itro^vn, of Londonderry, 

 Ohio, is a rising young physician as well as 

 bee-keeper in his section of country. He 

 had a fine display of honey at the Fair in 

 Washington, O., recently, which attracted 

 much attention. It was said by a local 

 newspaper that the manner in which it was 

 arranged was quite a novelty. There was 

 in the center a large show-case neatly 

 finished, and within was a honey-house all 

 filled with comb and extracted honey in 

 the various apartments, and on one side 

 was a pyramid ; from the base to the top 

 was filled with the most excellent specimens 

 of comb honey, and on the other was a cone 

 with specimens of extracted honey. The 

 exhibition also consisted of all the imple- 

 ments for extracting, and the management 

 of honey. 



We had the pleasure of meeting Dr. 

 Brown and his wife at the Chicago conven- 

 tion. The Doctor is a "hustler '' for keep- 

 ing people " sweet " as well as cured. 



One-Cent Postage Stamps we 



prefer whenever it is necessary to send 

 stamps for fractions of a dollar. By re- 

 membering this, you will greatly oblige us, 

 as we use many more one-cent stamps than 

 tlie two-cent kind. 



