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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Honey and Bee Shows. 



The season for these shows is ap- 

 proaching, and, as they do more in 

 educating the people concerning tlie 

 uses of honey and its consumption 

 than almost anything else, we liope 

 that bee-keepers throughout ttiecoiui- 

 try will take special interest in them, 

 and make an exhibit at every Fair 

 open to them, which will be alike 

 creditable to them and the Fairs whose 

 managers show a desire to foster the 

 honey exhibits. 



Last fall, Mr. C. H. Lake made an 

 exhibit atthe Virginia State Fairthat 

 was tlie. qrcat attraction, and aided much 



which was sent to this office by Mr. 

 Lake last fall, and is now in our office 

 album. The lirst person shown on 

 the right is Mr. Lake, the manager of 

 the apiary, the others being some 

 friend and assistants. 



In this tent he had a large display 

 of bees and hives, as well as a quan- 

 tity of honey, both comb and extrac- 

 ted. A correspondent remarks as 

 follows concerning this exhibit : "'He 

 took the premium on a lot of button- 

 bush lioney that was the whitest I 

 ever saw. He also showed the three 

 races of bees, and one imported Ital- 

 ian queen tliat breeds bees with the 

 white bands like the so-called albinos ; 



append two extracts from the Rich- 

 mond dailies of last November. They 

 are as follows : 



The exhibit of the Sunny Side Api- 

 ary, of Baltimore, deserves more than 

 what the newspapers have said about 

 it. Mr. U. II. Lake is the manager, 

 and was very busy yesterday showing 

 the workings of his new hives, which 

 are considered by bee-keepers to be 

 the best made. Mr. Lake exhibited 

 Cyprian, Holy Land or Syrian, and 

 the two species of Italian bees. From 

 one colony '2i0 pounds of honey was 

 obtained in six weeks.— Dcuij/ Whig. 



One of the attractions at the Fair 

 is tlie exhibition of Mr. Charles H. 

 Lake, manager of the Sunny Side 

 Apiary at Baltimore, Md. This gen- 



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BEE TENT OF C. H. LAKE'S APIARIAN EXHIBIT AT BALTIMORE, MD. 



in bringing honey and bees to the pub- 

 lic notice. Concerning this exhibit 

 the following from the secretary of 

 the Fair will speak for itself : 



I cannot avoid thanking you for the 

 extremely interesting exhibit you 

 made of bees and everything relating 

 thereto, which I believe has done more 

 to excite interest in and to cause an 

 appreciation of tliat department of 

 produce and industry among our peo- 

 ple, than all presentations and exhi- 

 bitions heretofore made at oiu' fairs. 

 Geo. W. Mayo, Sec, 



Virginia State Agricultural Sodet;/. 



This bee tent is shown by the en- 

 graving on this page, a photograph of 



so it showed that the albinos are not 

 an American race." 



Mr. \V. A. Hammond and Mr. J. \V. 

 Porter also exhibited honey and bees. 

 It was generally admitted that the 

 interest shown in theapiarian exhibits 

 was very great, and that the exhibits 

 themselves we^e far ahead of any that 

 had ever before been made there. 



This shows what can be done at 

 every Fair in the country if the bee- 

 keepers will make the necessary 

 exhibits. 



In order to show how the daily 

 papers view these exhibits, we will 



tleman has a large tent, under which 

 he shows a case of over two hundred 

 pounds of honey made from one hive ; 

 has several colonies ot Italian bees, 

 one of Cyjjrian bees, and also other 

 foreign bees. Every appliance used 

 in this business is shown by Mr. Lake, 

 lie is running seven hundred hives 

 this season. — iJaibj Dispatch. 



While on this subject we would in- 

 cidentally remark that a matter of 

 much impcntance, is the making out 

 of a good Prize List, to attract exhib- 

 itors. The smallness of such have 

 heretofore been a great hindrance to 

 apiculture. We are pleased to see a 

 very marked improvement in this 



