1895. 



THE AMERICAT»J BEE JOURNAL. 



447 



Judging; Honey at Fairs. 



At the Stratford meetinft of the Ontario Bee-Keepers' 

 Association last January, the following score card was rec- 

 ommended to be used in judging honey at Fairs : 



EXTRACTED HONEY. 



Flavor 35 



Body 35 



Color 25 



General appearance 5 



Total 100 



COMB HONEY. 



Flavor -. 30 



Sealed Cells 10 



Freedom from Pop Holes 10 



Absence of travel stain or propolis on wood or comb 10 



Evenness of Color of Honey 10 



Evenness of Comb (drone or brood) 10 



Neatness of Crating 5 



Style of Section 5 



Total 100 



Where display is to be considered as well as quality, it is 

 recommended that display and quality count equally, and that 

 in the consideration of display the following score be employed : 



Magnitude 35 



Originality 15 



Neatness and Artistic Design 50 



Total 100 



mr. 



Hutcliinson's Second Article 

 politan. 



in tlie Cosniu- 



Since the notice which appeared on page 409 of the 

 American Bee Journal was penned, the second and concluding 

 article on "The Pleasant Occupation of Tending Bees " has 

 come to hand in the June number of the Cosmopolitan. It is 

 longer than the first, more practical, and conveys information 

 which even parties who keep bees are not, all of them, famil- 

 iar with. The editor persists in regarding the main popula- 



tion of a bee-hive as of the male persuasion, and subheads 

 this second installment, "The completed story of the bee and 

 his product." 



A graphic account of cell-making introduces this second 

 article. It is illustrated by a large picture of a frame of comb 

 foundation which the bees have beguu to draw out. There is 

 also a life-like photogravure of the bees busily at work secret- 

 ing wax and building comb. The festoons of live bees have a 

 most natural appearance, while the bit of comb already built 

 gives a striking air of reality to the picture. The manage- 

 ment of swarms, e.'itracting honey, wintering, arrangement of 

 apiaries, and many other details are gone into with a clear- 

 ness and simplicity that cannot fail to interest and delight the 

 general reader. No fewer than 11 pictures accompany the 

 descriptive matter in this article, the last being a representa- 

 tion of Hon. R. L. Taylor's experimental apiary at Lapeer, 

 Mich, 



Bee-keepers ought to make these two numbers (May and 

 June) of the Cosmopolitan scarce by buying them up. They 

 will be very useful to show to visitors, as they will explain 

 much of the internal economy of the bee-hive without expo- 

 sure to the danger of being stuue. It may be stated that, 

 with the July number, the Cosmopolitan will be published at 

 the reduced price of 10 cents per number — a marvellously low- 

 figure for a magazine of such literary and artistic merit. 



Report of tiie Ontario Bee-Keepers' Association.. 



This report, published by the Ontario Department of Ag- 

 riculture, is to hand. It contains the proceedings of the an- 

 nual meeting in full as taken by the shorthand writer, and 

 subsequently revised by Messrs. Allen Pringle, J. B. Hall, J. 

 K. Darling, "and the Secretary, W. Couse. All the essays read 

 are given in full. There is also a fair synopsis of the discus- 

 sions, which, though not verbatim, is sufficiently full to give a 

 correct idea of what was said. The Treasurer's statement, 

 duly audited, shows in detail what the receipts and disburse- 

 ment were. The total receipts were .S872.04, and the ex- 

 penditures .§924.67, leaving a deficit of S52.63. This deficit 

 was caused by abnormal demands upon the treasury, which 

 are not likely to occur in the future. The report makes a- 

 royal octavo pamphlet of 60 pages, and is very handy for ref- 

 erence. Any one desirous of obtaining a copy should address 

 the Minister of Agriculture, Toronto, Out. These is no charge 

 for them. 



Biggest Premium We Ever Offered ! 



THE BEE-KEEPER'S GUIDE: 



OR 



MANUAL OF THE APIARY. 



BV 



PROF. A. J. COOK. 



This 15th and latest edition of Prof. Cook's magnificent book of 460 pages, 

 in neat and substantial cloth binding, we propose to give away to our present sub- 

 scribers, for the work of getting new subscribers for the American Bee Journal. 



A description of the book here is quite unnecessary — it is simply the most com- 

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HERE IS OUR GRAND OFFER: 



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Convention IVotices. 



C-4LIFORNI.4.— The next meeting of the Tu- 

 lare County Bee-Keepers' Association will be 

 held in Visalla, Aug. 14, 1895. All interested 

 are invited. J. E. Yodng, Sec. 



Visalia. Calif. 



Texas.— The Texas State Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation will meet at Greenville, Tex.. Aug-. 

 21 and '22, 1895. Good premiums are offered 

 for best exhibits. All are invited to attend. 



Deport, Tex. W. H. White, See. 



Wants or Excjiajiges. 



This department is only for your " Wants"" 

 or bona-flde " Exchanges," and such will be 

 Inserted here at 10 cents a line for eacb 

 time, when specially ordered into this depart- 

 ment. Exchanges lor cash or for price-lists^ 

 or notices offering articles for sale, will not 

 be inserted here— such belong in the regular- 

 advertising columns, at regular rates. 



TO EXCHANGE-Bees and Queens for an 

 Organ. F. C. Mokrow. 



27Alf Wallaceburg, Ark. 



TO EXCHANGE— Lossing's "Civil War ia 

 America " (.3 vols.i, for Honej-. Address, 

 J. 0. York, Alliance. Ohio. 



WANTED -Information regarding any lo- 

 cality in southern Georgia. Alabama or 

 Florida, possessing good fall and early-spring-, 

 honey- resources. Please address, 



South Florida Apiary Co. 

 27A2t New Smyrna, Fla,. 



