AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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The Honey Exhibit at the 



Detroit, Mich., Exposition this year was 

 highly spoken of by the Michigan 

 Farmer, which gave a good report of the 

 exhibits in the apiarian department, and 

 in which it says that Michigan bee-keep- 

 ers have only to put their heads — and 

 honey — together to make a showy and 

 popular exhibit whenever called upon. 

 Hence it "goes without saying," that 

 the apiarian department, under the 

 management of H. D. Cutting, of Clin- 

 ton, was a credit to the Exposition. 



The exhibitors were M. H. Hunt, of 

 Bell Branch; W. Z. Hutchinson, the 



largest and best exhibit, Mr. Hutchinson 

 second, and Mr. Boyden third. Mr. 

 Hunt also took first for foundation, and 

 for best foundation made on the grounds. 

 W. Z. Hutchinson took first on largest 

 collection of different varieties of bees, 

 also for largest collection of varieties of 

 honey (one lady inquired if the samples 

 were "medicine") ; E. Hutchinson sec- 

 ond ; W. Z. Hutchinson took first for 

 comb honey, and Mr. Kennedy second. 

 Mr. Boyden took first on some excep- 

 tionally fine samples of beeswax, and M. 

 H. Hunt second. There were other 

 premiums given which we failed to get. 



Kansas State Building at the World's Columbian Exposition, in 1893. 



well-known editor of the Bee-Keepers' 

 Review, and his brother, E. Hutchinson, 

 of Flint ; Mr. A. Kennedy, and J. H. 

 and A. L. Boyden, of Saline. The latter 

 are new exhibitors, and bought out Mr. 

 Cutting's apiary last spring. Mr. Cut- 

 ting has a " persuasive way " about him 

 which somehow induced these young 

 apiarists to enter the list of exhibitors. 



The premiums were awarded by Prof. 

 Larrabee, of the Agricultural College, 

 and his decisions seemed generally satis- 

 factory. 



The premiums were quite evenly 

 divided among the exhibitors. M. H. 

 Hunt took sweepstakes premium for 



The comments of passers-by were very 

 amusing to the bee-keepers, who pa- 

 tiently answered all inquiries, but re- 

 served the right to smile sub rosa at a 

 glaring display of ignorance. Nearly 

 every one observed the ceaseless activity 

 of the bees in the frames, believing 

 them to be " making honey" instead of 

 feeding upon it. One nice old lady who 

 came along, peered curiously around the 

 frames and said, " Deary me ! those are 

 the queerest fly-traps I ever saw." 



The honey crop this season, says Mr. 

 Cutting, has been very uneven. In some 

 localities the bees have done well, in 

 others the honey harvest has been poor. 



