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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Vol, inV, CHICA&O. ILL., NOV, 14, 1895. No, 46, 



Editorial Budget. 



An International Bee-Cong^ress has beeu 

 announced several times iu the Bee Journal, to be held at 

 Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 4 and 5. It occurs while the great South- 

 ern Exposition Is in full blast. Dr. J. P. H. Brown, of Augusta, 

 Ga., the conductor of the Southern Department of the Bee 

 Journal, has the matter in ^harge, and can give you any par- 

 ticulars about it that you may wish to know. It will be a fine 

 opportunity for the bee-keepers of the South to get together 

 and discuss matters of interest to the pursuit in that melliflu- 

 ous portion of our great country. 



Reports Encourag-ing- and Discouragfing:, 



Gleanings says, were about equally divided for August and 

 the forepart of September, but lately there seemed to be more 

 of the encouraging sort. Good fall honey-flows have been re- 

 ported in many parts of the country, which made feeding un- 

 necessary. 



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Xlie 9Iinnesota Apiarian Exliit>it at the 



State Fair, held at Hamline, in September, was very credit- 

 able to Minnesota bee-keepers, as the season had not been 

 promising for flne honey. The Farm, Stock and Home says 

 that the display of comb and extracted honey, beeswax, cook- 

 ery in which honey was used instead of sugar, honey-vinegar, 

 etc., was certainly the best yet made in Minnesota. Wm. Urie 

 and Dr. Jacques, of Hennepin; Mr. Howe, of Olmstead ; Mr. 

 Theilmann, of Wabasha; Mr. Turnbull, of Houston; Mr. 

 Aldrich, of Rice ; and Wm. Bright, of Wabasha, were all 

 prize-takers. Dr. Jacques spent the summer of 1893 at a 

 Forestville apiary, learning to produce fine comb honey, and 

 the proof of his success was an exhibit of three cases of comb 

 honey, on which he took two first and one second premium, 

 for perfection of capping and general finish and shipping 

 quality. Mrs. Wm. Urie, as usual, took first premium for 

 cookery and canning in which honey entered in place of cane- 

 sugar. 



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Advertising the Honey-Business. - During 



the first 19 days of last month (October), there was held in 

 Chicago the second annual Pure Food Show, in one of the 

 buildings with large ground floor space. This space was 

 divided, and the use of it sold to prospective exhibitors. 



Mr. J. A. Lamon— one of Chicago's prominent honey- 

 dealers — put in an exhibit of honey, and kept a young lady in 

 charge of it during the whole time of the Show. The use of 

 the space occupied cost him .S 100, and this together with 



other expenses, including the honey samples given away to 

 the thousands who visited the various exhibits during the 

 nearly three weeks of the Pure Food Show, amounted to an 

 outlay of about $200. 



Samples of extracted honey were given out on crackers 

 about an inch and a half in diameter. The lady in attendance 

 kept a tumbler of honey on the counter, and with a teaspoon 

 dipped a good, big taste of honey on the cracker, which was 

 then handed to the visitor, who ate the whole thing with evi- 

 dent relish. About 5 gallons of extracted honey per day was 

 thus given away. It was a splendid method of introducing 

 pure honey. 



Mr. Lamon's representative also took orders for honey all 

 the time, and sold quite a good deal of both comb and ex- 

 tracted, in regular grocery style. 



I might say here, that each exhibitor had put up a neat 

 canvas booth, with a counter extending around the outside, 

 thus enclosing a small space wherein the attendant stood, and 

 also where the supplies were kept. 



A very attractive feature of Mr. Lamon's pure hooey ex- 

 hibit, was a fine colony of bees in a glass hive, placed on the 

 counter where all could see it. It is almost needless to say 

 that there was a good-sized crowd of city folks around the 

 bees all the time. And many were the exclamations of sur- 

 prise at the (to them) wonderful sight. And more were the 

 questions asked. 



To make the beeand honey part of the Show still more 

 interesting and fascinating, Mr. Lamon offered three prizes 

 for guessing the number of bees in the hive. Everybody was 

 free to put in their guess, and there were some 8,000 who did 

 so. The first prize offered was §10; 2nd, So ; and the 3rd, 

 One Dozen Jars of Lamon's Pure Honey. The result of the 

 " guessing contest" was as follows : Fred Bennett, of Chi- 

 cago, received the 1st prize, his guess being, 40,055 bees. 

 Miss Nettie Watson, of Jackson, Mich., and Rose Lowenstein, 

 T. L. Penny, A. S. Purrington, and C. J. Ratclifl, of Chicago, 

 all guessed -±0,000, entitling each to a share of the 2nd prize. 

 The third prize went to Fred H. Tischell, of Chicago, who 

 guessed 40,323. The number of bees in the hive was 40,050. 



Since the Pure Food Show closed, one of the largest gen- 

 eral merchandise stores here has begun a similar exhibition in 

 its own store. It began Tuesday, Nov. 5, I believe, and there 

 were two exhibiting and selling honey. 



I do not know of a better way to get people to use honey, 

 than to follow the above plan whenever and wherever possi- 

 ble. Every grocery store throughout the country should keep 

 horey before its customers, and call attention to it by giving 

 "free tastes." People usually want to know in advance what 

 they are buying. 



A letter received from Mr. Lamon, dated Oct. 15, 1895, 

 has this to say concerning his effort to advertise and introduce 

 honey : 



Mr. Geo. Vi. York — Dear Sir ; — I think (or have learned, 

 rather) that extracted honey is hardly more than introduced 

 to the consumers, and if the method I have adopted at the 

 Pure Food Show wee practiced throughout the country (es- 

 pecially in large cities), it would be a matter of a short time 

 before it would teach the people what the article really is, and 

 educate them to distinguish between pure and adulterated 

 honey. 



The teachers of the city kindergartens are interested, and 

 from me have obtained wax, comb-cells, honey, etc., to dem- 

 onstrate to the children the habits of the honey-bees, their 

 uses, etc. 



We have, I think, the most Interesting and instructive 

 exhibition in the hall, and we sample out from 3 to 5 gallons 

 of honey a day. The advertisement we get from it will, we 

 figure, repay us handsomely, aud the direct benefit honey and 

 wax will receive therefrom is beneficial. J. A. Lamox. 



I feel quite sure that on account of Mr. Lamon's enter- 

 prising efforts, honey will be called for much more frequently 

 hereafter at most of the 5,000 grocery stores here in Chicago. 



