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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Bee and Honey Exhibits at Fairs. 



The Managers of Agricultural Socle- 

 ties are always Interested in anything 

 that will increase the attractions at 

 their Fairs, and if the exhibits of bees 

 and honey will prove a real attraction, 

 the Directors are usually quite willing 

 to offer prizes for such in their Premium 

 Lists. 



This is just the right time for bee- 

 keepers to make known to the Managers 

 of Fairs, in their localities, that they 

 will make an exhibit, if they are encour- 

 aged to do so by the offer of liberal 

 Premiums. 



Every bee-keepers' Association should 

 now appoint a committee to wait upon, 

 or immediately correspond with, the 

 Fair directors in its immediate vicinity, 

 concerning such Premiums, for the 

 directors usually meet early in each 

 year, to attend to that matter. And if 

 adequate Premiums are offered, they 

 will always call out an exhibit worthy of 

 the name. 



Bees should be shown in full colonies, 

 or at least in Observation Hives, and the 

 exhibit should include the native and 

 imported stock : Italians, Cyprians, Car- 

 niolans, and Syrians, when it is possible 

 to do so. Bees in such glassed hives 

 always prove an ATTRACTION to those 

 attending Fairs. 



Comb-Honey, too, should be shown in 

 glassed crates, in such quantities as will 

 compel the passing crowds to stop and 

 admire it ! 



Extracted-Honey should be put up in 

 glass jars, fancy glass tumblers, jelly 

 cups, etc., and shown in such abundance 

 and attractiveness that it would compel 

 the gazing multitudes to be captivated 

 with it. 



The most alluring exhibits are those 

 that tower up, to be seen from a dis- 

 tance — as it were to hail the crowds, and 

 cause them to approach and wonder at 

 its excellence and astonishing propor- 

 tions ! Adorn these exhibits with flags 

 and bunting — with signs and inscriptions 

 — to charm the beholders. 



Beeswax, too, should be exhibited in 

 profusion, as coping, fencing, towers or 

 obelisks. 



Apiarian furniture — tools, hives, ex- 

 tractors, etc., — should be there, to enlist 

 the attention of beginners and those who 

 have but a few colonies, and less experi- 

 ence in the pursuit. 



Neatness and taste should be displayed 

 in all the arrangements, for these are 

 the essentials to success. 



Bee-keepers should be alive to their 

 interests in these things, and they will 

 find that they can obtain whatever they 

 unitedly ask for — almost invariably. 



It has been remarked at nearly every 

 place where large exhibits have been 

 made, that the apiarian department has 

 been the most alluring and captivating of 

 the entire Exposition. 



In view of these facts, every Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association should appoint its most 

 efficient members to attend to the mat- 

 ter at once, and also to secure a grand 

 apiarian exhibit at the next Fair in its 

 vicinity. 



Each Association should also affiliate 

 with the National Association, and 

 secure the medals which that body pro- 

 vides, to be awarded as the local Society 

 may deem most expedient. 



If you tiave a desire to know 



how to have Queens fertilized in upper 

 stories, while the old Queen is still laying 

 below— how you may safely introduce any 

 Queen, at any time of the year when bees 

 can fly — all about the different races of 

 bees — all about shipping Queens, queen- 

 cages, candy for queen-cages, etc. — all 

 about forming nuclei, multiplying or unit- 

 ing bees, or weak colonies, etc. ; or, in fact 

 everything about the queen-business which 

 you may want to know, send for ' ' Doolit- 

 tle's Scientific Queen-Rearing;" a book of 

 170 pages, which is nicely bound in cloth, 

 and is as interesting as a story. Price, bound 

 in cloth, 11.00. 



Supply Dealers desiring to sell our 

 book, "Bees and Honey," should write 

 for terms before issuing their Catalogues. 



