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Xlie Detroit Hxpositioii con- 

 tained as usual a nice exhibit of bees 

 and honey. With such excellent exhibi- 

 tors as friends Hunt, Hutchinson and 

 Van Deusen, and the young ladies, Anna 

 Cutting and May Hutchinson, the display 

 must be first-class. The following from 

 the Michigan Farmer, will give an idea 

 of the excellence of the exhibit : 



Although Mr. H. D. Cutting, superin- 

 tendent of the apiarian exhibit at the 

 Exposition, was not present, the bee 

 men and women of the State arranged a 

 display which did credit to themselves 

 and their industry. There were five 

 exhibitors, but they had everything con- 

 nected with the business right handy, 

 and arranged in good taste. 



The exhibitors were M. H. Hunt, of 

 Bell Branch ; W. Z. Hutchinson, of 

 Flint, the popular editor of the Bee- 

 Keepers'' Review ; J. Van Deusen & Son, 

 of' Sprout Brook, N. Y. ; Miss Anna 

 Cutting, of Clinton, and Miss May 

 Hutchinson, of Flint. 



Mr. Hunt's exhibit was by far the 

 largest and most comprehensive, and 

 was beautifully arranged, being set off 

 by a moulding of wax which made a 

 frame work for the piles of honey in 

 sections, and the jars filled with luscious 

 extracted sweetness. 



An interesting study was afforded by 

 the single comb nuclei in cases, includ- 

 ing samples of Italian, Cyprian, Carnio- 

 lan, Syrian, black and Albino bees, also 

 the new Punic, and the real old-fash- 

 ioned, unaristocratic but independent 

 bumble-bee. Mr. Hunt claims the only 

 Punic bees in this State, and the queen 

 bee cost hira the tidy little sum of $80. 



All manner of implements for use in 

 the apiary were shown ; but their use 

 was a mystery to the uninitiated. 



The honey was most attractively put 

 up for convenience of possible customers, 

 and those who failed to supply them- 

 selves with the most delicious sweet in 

 the world, missed a grand opportunity 

 for feasting upon genuine nectar. 



The other displays were excellent, if 

 not as large as Mr. Hunt's ; the Van 

 Deusens confining themselves to comb- 

 honey. 



Misses Cutting and Hutchinson have 

 demonstrated that women can become 

 successful bee-keepers. Miss Cutting 

 can maintain her usual calm serenity of 

 eye and mien with a million bees buzzing 

 about her, in spite of the well-known 

 disposition to resent a momentary 



annoyance by the thrust of a poisoned 

 dagger, and to present the argument 

 later. 



Bee Items from Colorado.— 



The following are interesting items from 

 Field and Farm, published at Denver : 



W. A. Dakan has made a success in 

 bee-culture in Bergen Park, El Paso 

 County, Colo., high up in the great 

 mountains. He has over 30 colonies, 

 which have done well. The honey is of 

 unusually fine flavor, the bees pasturing 

 entirely on the wild flora of the mount- 

 ains. 



The brood-combs in reserve that have 

 the most pollen in them, should be the 

 ones first given to the colonies in the 

 Spring. These are the ones among 

 which the moths work first, and make 

 the most havoc, and the pollen they 

 contain is just what the bees need when 

 new pollen is not plenty, or they are 

 prevented from collecting it by long 

 continued storms. 



To extract wax from old combs, make 

 a sack of cheese cloth, fill it with the 

 wax, and set the lower end in boiling 

 water. As fast as the combs melt 

 down, put in more until the boiler will 

 hold no more ; then tie up and place a 

 weight on it, to sink it. The wax will 

 rise to the top. Have a tub of cold 

 water handy, and skim the wax off the 

 water, and pour it in the tub. It will 

 be perfectly pure and clean, and can be 

 molded immediately. 



A writer at La Plata, New Mexico, 

 says that the fire-weed in that vicinity 

 is ahead of alfalfa as a honey yielder. 

 The specimen he sends, however, is not 

 the regular fire-weed — Epilobium angus- 

 tifoliuriL — although it is related to that 

 variety of honey-plant. It is known in 

 science as the Ooura coceinea, and be- 

 longs to the evening primrose family. It 

 yields nectar generously. 



Rome, the Eternal City, which, in 

 these progressive times, is rapidily 

 outgrowing the picturesqueness that 

 formerly endeared it to travelers, is 

 sympathetically described and admirably 

 illustrated, in its modern aspects, in an 

 article entitled, " Roma — Amor," by 

 Henry Tyrrell, opening the October 

 numbe'r of FrarOz Leslie^s Popular 

 Monthly. 



