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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Prizes for Honey. 



Will you kindly allow me the privilege 

 of asking Mr. M. H. Hunt, Mr. W. Z. 

 Hutchinson and Dr. Mason to each send 

 me the Prize List of the exhibition at 

 which they respectively took $192, 

 $175, and $149, in prizes, for a single 

 exhibit of honey — bees, queens and appli- 

 ances not included ? It will answer my 

 purpose equally well, Mr. Editor, if you 

 will refer me to the exhibitions at which 

 those prizes were taken, as I will prob- 

 ably be able to get their prize Lists from 

 the Secretaries. I have always believed 

 that the "Toronto Industrial" offered 

 the best prizes for honey of any exhibi- 

 bition in America, but the report of the 

 Detroit meeting makes it manifest I am 

 mistaken. I am much interested in this 

 matter, being a member of the Board of 

 the Toronto Industrial, and specially 

 charged with the duty of looking after 

 the interests of the bee-keepers. If 

 armed with the Prize Lists of other asso- 

 ciations which make it possible for an 

 exhibitor to secure double the prizes 

 Toronto gives for honey, I can, I think, 

 do the bee-keepers of Ontario some good, 

 when the committee meets to revise the 

 Prize List for the coming show. 



Owen Sound, Ont. R. McKnight. 



The proof of Mr. McKnight's queries 

 were sent to the persons mentioned, and 

 here are the answers : 



[I In reply to Mr. McKnight, I will say 

 that I received the premiums mentioned 

 at the Detroit International Fair, in the 

 past season. He, no doubt, can get a 

 Premium List by sending for it. 



M. H. Hunt. 



I never took the amount mentioned on 

 honey alone, and I think that none of the 

 exhibitors did. The amount gives me 

 the sum total secured upon honey, bees, 

 beeswax, implements, etc. If Mr. Mc- 

 Knight meant honey alone in his essay, 

 he was misunderstood. 



W. Z. Hutchinson. 



W^ Mr. C. F. Muth, of Cincinnati, 

 O., has become a life-member of the 

 North American Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 ciation. Who will be the next ? We 

 want at least 50 more life-members. 



Wisconsin State Convention. 



The Seventh Annual meeting of the 

 Wisconsin Bee-Keepers' Association will 

 be held in the Capitol, at Madison, on 

 Feb. 4 and 5, 1891, at 10 a.m. The 

 following is the programme : 



Address of the President — C. A. Hatch. 



A bee-cellar — Benj. Rice. 



Use and mis-use of foundation — T. E. 

 Turner. 



Discouragements of bee-keeping — S. I. 

 Freeborn. 



The following questions will be dis- 

 cussed : Why do you not join the Bee- 

 Keepers' Union '? 



Will a reduction in the price of sugar 

 lower the price of honey ? 



Which is the best wide frames, T 

 supers, or what ? 



Do fruit growing and bee-keeping 

 go well together ? 



The Wednesday afternoon meeting will 

 be held in connection with the State Ag- 

 ricultural and Horticultural Societies, 

 and as a natural result, the time will be 

 both profitably and pleasantly spent. 

 C. A. Hatch, Pres., Ithaca. 



De. J. W. Vance, Sec, Madison. 



In compliance with a very pressing 

 invitation, we have agreed to attend this 

 Convention, and hope to meet many of 

 our friends there. 



The type of the last line of the 

 first paragraph on page 107, got " pied" 

 last week after the proof was read, and 

 was unintelligible. 



Rates for the Ohio Convention. 



A one-and-one-third rate of fare has 

 been secured for the round trip on all 

 railroads in Ohio and Indiana, to attend 

 the meeting of the Ohio State Bee-Keep- 

 ers, to be held in Toledo, at the Mer- 

 chants' Hotel, on St. Clair street, on Feb. 



10 and 11. Rates at good hotels are 

 from one dollar up. 



In order to secure reduced rates of 

 fare, buy certificates of your railroad 

 station-agent, to attend the " Ohio Re- 

 publican League Convention and Ban- 

 quet," and I will fix them, so that they 

 will be good for one-third return fare. 

 Certificates can be bought on Feb. 10, 



11 and 12, and will be good for return 

 up to, and including Feb. 14. 



For parties coming from Michigan, the 

 fare is two cents a mile each way, when 

 parties of ten or more come and return 

 together, on one ticket, which must be 

 bought as above, foi* "Ohio Republican 

 League Convention and Banquet." W^rite 

 me for any further information that may 

 be desired. A. B. Mason, 



Pres. 0. State Bee-Keepers'' Association. 



