THE AMERICAI4 BEE JUURNAL. 



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His collection of implements uum- 

 bereil SO ; itnii his display of full colo- 

 nies of ditfeieiit varieties of bees was 

 the larjiest sliovvn, there being Ital- 

 ians. OiirnioUiiis, Syrians, hybrids and 

 blacks; also a one-frame nucleus of 

 Italians and a iiucen. 



Elmer Hutchinson [W. Z.'s brother) 

 showed 7n varieties of honey-produc- 

 ing plants pressed and mounted. Per- 

 luips 1 should not say that he showed 

 them, as they were liotput up, simply 

 because there was no room, lie had 

 on exhibition full colonies of blacks, 

 Italians, Syrians, and Cyprians, two 

 crates of comb honey, and a collec- 

 tion of queen bees. 



11. L. Taylor, of Lapeer, Mich., oc- 

 cupied one entire end of the hall with 

 a display of comb honey. Beginning 

 about 2 feet above the floor, the crates 

 of honey were piled up in one solid 

 pyramidal pile, the top of which lacked 

 only about 2 feet of reaching the peak 

 of the roof. With light red for a 

 back-ground, this pyramid of more 

 than 4,000 poiuids of comb honey, 

 made a bright, handsome, and strik- 

 ing display. Mr. Taylor also exhib- 

 ited a colony of Italian bees, a bee- 

 hive, a machine for piercing holes in 

 frames for wiring, and a Given press, 



Mr. M. H. Hunt occupied one en- 

 tire side of the building. Ilis display 

 of extracted honey, foundation, wax, 

 and implements was the finest in the 

 building. The extracted honey was 

 put up in tin cans, tin pails, glass 

 pails, glass jars, glass bottles, jugs, 

 etc., all of which were tastefully ar- 

 ranged. The foundation hung in long 

 strips and festoons from the " plate" 

 of the building, the bright, yellow 

 wax forming a pleasing contrast with 

 the dark-blue back-ground. One 

 strip of foundation was 50 feet long. 

 Mr. Hunt seems to have learned the 

 art of sheeting wax, so that it will be 

 tough even in cool weather. Perhaps 

 the finest thing in his whole exhibit 

 ■was a wax monument nearly 4 feet 

 high, and weighing nearly 200 pounds. 

 The base v.'as 17J^ inches square, and 

 upon one side, in raised letters, was 

 the word HUBER. The other sides 

 of the base, as well as the sides of the 

 second block, and tlie. sides of the 

 upright shaft were appropriately pan- 

 eled. Taken all in all, it was a tine 

 piece of work. Mr. Hunt also ex- 

 hibited full colonies of Italians, 

 Syrians and blacks, and a Syrian 

 queen in a one-frame nucleus of black 

 bees. 



Mr. C. M. "Weed made a display of 

 over oO specimens of honey-produc- 

 ing plants pressed and mounted. 



Through the centre of the- building 

 was a long table 4 feet wide, covered 

 with a miscellaneous collection of ex- 

 hibits. One of these exhibits was a 

 pyramid of square bottles of differ- 

 ent sizes Oiled with honey having 

 a very slight, amber tinge. There 

 was a door at each corner of the 

 building, and many pleasant minutes 

 were passed in watching the sunlight 

 stream in at these doors and shine 

 npon this pyramid of amber-colored 

 honey. "What beautiful tints were 

 brought out 1 This exhibit belonged 

 to Mr. O. H. Townsend, as did a bee- 



liive, a one-frame nucleus, and a case 

 of comb honey. 



A ^Ir. t^uick showed cans of ex- 

 tracted honey, cases of comb honey, a 

 bee-hive, and made a very fine display 

 of \^an Deusen foundation. 



Mr. (t. K. Hubbard, of Indiana, ex- 

 hibited his patent hive, two one-frame 

 nuclei, and some fancy specimens of 

 comb honey. 



Premiums awarded amounted to 

 nearly $300. 



A few years .ago, when attending 

 the Michigan State Fair, the writer 

 made a diligent search for some dis- 

 play in the apiarian line, and at last 

 found, sandwiched in between the 

 dairy products, a few brood-combs of 

 honey hung upon a rack. " Look on 

 this picture and then on that." Mich- 

 igan bee and honey shows are now 

 " up with the times." 



Rogersville, Mich. 



The Maine State Fair. 



The Maine State Fair closed on Sat- 

 urday, Sept. 29, 1884. 



The number of individual entries in 

 the bee-department of the Maine State 

 Fair were not large, but comprised 

 many implements and fixtures, sev- 

 eral colonies of bees under glass, and 

 a capital exhibit of honey, both in 

 quality and quantity. 



Mr. E. P. Churchill, of North Au- 

 burn, exhibited one full colony of 

 Italians, one nucleus-colony of Italians 

 in observatory hives, showing all the 

 movements of the bees as they cluster 

 about their queen. Many were the 

 inquiries elicited by this exhibit of 

 real, live bees, in which the various 

 processes of comb-building could be 

 explained. Two section-cases were 

 included in this collection of fixtures. 

 Another useful implement exhibited 

 was an entrance-spring press for 

 moulding entrance clasps, a combined 

 bee-pass and feeder in the sections, 

 box-nailer, holder for nailing frames, 

 mould for forming division-boards, 

 uncapping knife, foundation-fastener, 

 chaff and single division-boards, and 

 pattern for making hives. In this 

 exhibit were shoviii two samples of 

 nice, extracted honey. 



.1. B. Mason, of Mechanic Falls, had 

 a fine and large exhibit, including one 

 full colony of pure Italian bees, and 

 observatory hive in which the bees 

 and combs are shown under glass. 



Two geared honey- extractors were 

 shown, also Ctiurchill's improved 

 cliaff-hive, and a Simplicity-Lang- 

 stroth hive. 



Among the numerous fixtures in 

 Mr. ^Mison's exhibit, were included 

 foundation-fastener, samples of comb 

 foundation (heavy and light), dove- 

 tailed sections, wire for frames, large 

 collections of bee-literature (compris- 

 ing seventeen bee-papers and eighteen 

 books), frame with foundation, setter 

 for some three styles of bee-feeders, 

 machine for putting sections together, 

 Blake's and Clarke's bee-smokers, 

 Jones' drone-guard, perforated zinc 

 honey-board, metal rabbets and cor- 

 ners, nucleus hive and frames, chaff 

 division-board, separators for sec- 

 tions, a reversible frame, queen cages. 



comb basket, and atmospheric feeder. 

 In this exhibit were a dozen, or more, 

 beautiful Italian queens confined in 

 separate cages, with a few of the 

 worker bees in each. Preserved in 

 alcohol, Mr. M. had specimens of the 

 queen in embryo, embracing each 

 change from the eggs to maturity. 



The honey exhibit included extract- 

 ed honey in glass jars, and three glass 

 monuments of exceeding beauty and 

 richness, also one case of sections 

 filled with nice clover honey. 



I. F. Blaisdell, of Fort Fairfield, 

 made a very nice display of comb 

 honey. His exhibit was in three- 

 pound glass boxes, and comprised 425 

 pounds. 



Another fine sample of comb honey 

 was that of Edward Tarr, of Castle 

 Hill. He is also a large honey-pro- 

 ducer, his crop being, tins season, a 

 ton and a half. 



Mr. G. W. P. Jerrard, of Caribou, 

 made his usual fine display of comb 

 honey and bees. The bees were blacks 

 and Italians in observatory hives. Mr. 

 Jerrard keeps his bees on the most 

 improved plans, using fixtures and 

 inventions of his own of peculiar 

 merit for display of comb honey and 

 for transporting the same, long dis- 

 tances. Mr. Jerrard has produced 

 about 8,000 pounds of finished honey, 

 that is, in neatly-capped sections, be- 

 sides 2,000 pounds in partly-filled 

 boxes. 



Mr. Blaisdell, of Fort Fairfield, said, 

 " On two square miles where I live, 

 some 500 colonies of bees are kept, 

 producing many tons of pure honey." 

 Aroostook county is truly " a land 

 flowing with milk and honey."— 

 Leuiston, Me., Journal. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Moisture in Bee-Cellars. 



C. W. DAYTON. (5 



In the fall of 1883, 1 selected 8 colo- 

 nies of bees, to each of which I gave 

 6 combs, the lower half of each comb 

 being well occupied by pollen, and 

 most of the cells above, which con- 

 tained honey, were about half full of 

 pollen. The brood-chamber of each 

 colony was covered with enameled 

 cloth. 



Three of the colonies wintered well. 

 Three having less honey and more 

 pollen than I expected, starved about 

 10 days before the time to put them 

 out of the cellar. None of the starved 

 colonies contained a half dozen bees 

 having distended bodies. 



In another colony that clustered low 

 on the combs after being in the cellar 

 about 70 days, moisture commenced 

 accumulating in drops around a circle 

 directly over the cluster on the under 

 side of the enameled cloth. This 

 circle continued to grow smaller, and 

 the drops of moisture continued to 

 grow larger until the enameled cloth 

 was entirely covered with drops of 

 water, which ran down on the combs 

 or dropped into the cluster. Previous 

 to this the bees had appeared almost 

 lifeless when looking in at the top of 

 the hive with a light ; but now they 

 acted as when swarming, and cluster- 



