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Uses of Honey.— In the Orange Judd 

 Fanner we find the followinjj interesting 

 item on the uses to which honey is now 

 frequently put. The superior value of 

 honey in the " sweet manufactures " of the 

 day is just beginning to be appreciated ; 

 and when consumers once realize its ex- 

 cellence as a substitute for sugar, and its 

 comparative inexpensiveness, honey will 

 then occupy its proper position— not only in 

 medicine and the culinary art, where its use 

 ■would bring health and happiness to all, 

 but also in the manufacture of luxurious 

 confections. The item referred to reads 

 thus : 



In all ages honey has been used for many 

 purposes. The Ancient Britons used it to 

 make mead, and this drink continued to be 

 much used luudieds of yeais atier them. 

 When malt liquors became popular, and 

 when sugar was introduced, the uses of 

 honey went down for a time, but of late 

 jearsithas gone up again with a bound. 

 Boiieyis l.ugely u-ed ui the manuiaciure 

 of honey chocolate creams and lioney choco- 

 laie tablets. There is a delicious taste of 

 the honey in these articles, but they are so 

 juiiiciiiusly blended with tlie other materials 

 that they are not ti.o sweet. Honey is also 

 now largely used by the confectioners in 

 the place of suaar in many kinds of lozen- 

 ges, couiih drops and other sweetmeats. 

 Gl)Cerine and honey jujubes for the throat; 

 corn and honey food ; herbal tablets, etc., 

 are only a few of the many things which 

 niialitbe mentioned. The toilet is not left 

 out, as it is used in soap and dentitiice. 

 Doctors use it very largely lor many pur- 

 poses, and many doctors are amoniist our 

 most successlul bee-keepers, and thus the 

 purity of their meiliciuts may be guaran- 

 teed. Tliere are many per.-ons who are not 

 allowed to use sugar at all ; to these honey 

 comes as a boon. It is a curious thing to 

 note that even the analer now u-^es honey, 

 and natural honey fish bait is put down in 

 the list of nece^saries for the modem com- 

 plete angler. What would old Isaac Wal- 

 ton say to this ? 



Prof. W. ■^V. McLain, of the Gov- 

 ernment Experiment Station at Hinsdale, 

 Ills., has been appointed superintendent of 

 the Apiarian Exhibit of the Paris Exposi- 

 tion to be held in April, 18t>9, and he is now 

 making preparations to gather together the 

 largest and best exhibit of bees, honey, 

 apiaiiau supplies, implements, and their 

 processes of manufacture, that has ever 

 been made. Let us all help him to make 

 up the exhibit, and thus show the world 

 what we can do. 



'Winnebago County, Iowa, held 

 its first fair the last week of September, and 

 it was a success, the display in every de- 

 partment exceeding all expectations. Mr. 

 Eugene Secor— one of our valued corres- 

 pondents— is the President of the Agricul- 

 tural Society, which fact of itself should 

 have insured a successful outcome of the 

 fair. Mr. Secor and W. W. Wright made a 

 fine display of honey, which attracted a 

 good deal of attention, and Mrs. Secor made 

 a good showing of canned fruit. 



Mr. It. McKniglit, of Owen Sound, 

 Ont., on Sept. 29, 1888, writes as follows 

 concerning the exhibit of honey which he 

 made at the Toronto Industrial Exhibition : 



I send you a photograph of my honey ex- 

 hibit as shown at thelndu''trial Exhiiiition 

 at Toronto recently. It took the special 

 prize of $50 for its general "get up," apart 

 from the quality and quantity of the honey. 



Mv aggregate prizes on this exhibit 

 amounted to $87— the most taken for ho'iey 

 alone, by any one here, up till the present 

 time. 



The photograph shows the end and one 

 side of the exhiiiit. The extent of space it 

 covers is 16x4 feet, rising to i}.< feet from 

 the stase at the back end, with a uniform 

 ascent from front to rear. 



The photograph referred to by Mr. 

 McKnight is an excellent one, showing a 

 very creditable and finely-arranged exhibit 

 of honey, both comb and extracted. Among 

 the numerous nicely-labeled glass cans and 

 jars of honey are placed a number of pots 

 of beautiful flowers, which adds much to 

 the attractiveness of the display. Snch ex- 

 hibits of the products of the apiary will do 

 a great deal toward familiarizing the gen- 

 eral public with the results of the labors of 

 the bees and their keepers, and also bring 

 to the attention of interested spectators this 

 unexcelled food product— honey— in its va- 

 rious forms. Thus will the apiarists not 

 only develop a good home market for their 

 production, but at the same time they will 

 contiibute no little to the health and hap- 

 piness of others. 



Parmer I>e Forest's Itirtliday 

 ■tees. — Cyrus De Forest owns a lariit in 

 Noith Wilton, on the Danhury branch of 

 the Housatonic railway. On his t)irthday 

 every May a swarm of bees come to his 

 place and take refuge between the floor and 

 the ceiling of his house. All clforts to keep 

 them out have failed, and it has not yet 

 been discovered how they aain an entrance. 

 At the end of the season the floor is taken 

 up and the honey is gathered. Last year 

 Mr. De Forest L'ot94 pounds, and this year 

 his crop was 76 pounds. The remarkable 

 facts of the case are the reiiularity of the 

 appearance of the bees. Last year was the 

 one exception in several years, they coming 

 one day earlier than usual. The bees are 

 killed every year, but a swarm takes their 

 place the next season. 



A correspondent sends us the above for 

 publication. It is evidently one of the 

 " yarns " now going the rounds. It is very 

 unlikely they should come "every May," on 

 his birthday, even if it did once happen. 



A Young: but promising apiarist of 

 Virginia has passed away. We refer to Mr. 

 Samuel B. Wood, eldest son of Mr. Daniel 

 T. Wood, aged 23 years. He died at his 

 father's residence after a lingering illness 

 of consumption, on Monday, Sept. 9, 18S8. 



When at College his health became im- 

 paired, and three years ago he relinquished 

 his studies, left College, and commenced to 

 keep bees. He was very successful, and 

 would have become a distinauished apiarist 

 in time. The Winchester Times says : 



He was an exemplary young man, and 

 had won the esteem and admiration of 

 many friends by his Christian demeanor 

 and attractive manners. His death is de- 

 plored by all who knew him. To the sorely 

 bereaved parents and family we tender our 

 sympathies. 



He was buried on Sept. 12, from his 

 father's residence at Mount Hebron, three 

 miles south of Jordan's Springs. The 

 furneral procession was a very long one, 

 showing that he had many friends. 



Tlie Toronto Honey Exliibit.— 



In the Cmiadian Honey Producer ior Octo- 

 ber is given a list ot the exhibitors and their 

 exhibits, with the amounts secured in pre- 

 miums, besides diplomas. From that list 

 we glean the following, the judges being J. 

 F. Dunn, Allen Pringle and W. McEvoy : 



For various exhibits R. McKnight, of 

 Owen Sound, secured S.37 in premiums ; K. 

 F. Holtemianii, of Brantford, $4'i.f>0 ; K. H. 

 Smith, of Bracehridge, S30..50 ; E. L. Goold 

 .ifc Co., of Brantford, $23 ; Will Ellis, of St. 

 Davids, $8 ; Mrs. John Wilson, S2 ; and J. 

 Spence, of Toronto, a silver medal. Mr. R. 

 McKnight received, in addition to the pre- 

 miums, $50 " for the most tasty, attractive 

 and neatly-arranged exhibit of honey in the 

 apiarian department, all the honey the pro- 

 duction of the exhibitor." Half of the prize 

 was given by the Ontario Bee Keepers' As- 

 sociation. Although the season had proved 

 disastrous to the bee-keeper, the exhibit on 

 the whole was very creditable, indeed. 



Mr. X. II. Itlovr, one of the most pro- 

 pressive apiarists of England, is now in 

 America, on a visit. He sailed on Sept. 19 

 from Liverpool to New York, in the steam- 

 ship "City of Rome." He intends to visit 

 some of our principal bee-keepers. As Mr. 

 Blow is well acquainted with the portions 

 of Europe and Asia from which we obtain 

 the Eastern raci-s of bees, his company will 

 be very entertaining. 



Xlie Rliotle Island Bee and 

 Honey Exiiibit is thus mentioned by 

 the Providence Journal ot Sept. 26 : 



There are six entries, the largest of which 

 is by Samuel Cushman, of Pawtucket. He 

 has six hives of bees, showing stro'na colo- 

 nies of tlie best working strains of Italian, 

 S\rian, Carniolansand natives. He lias also 

 an exiiihit of hives, winter hives, comb 

 honey hives, and hives for extracting the 

 honey. He has also a large cane showing a 

 swarm clustered in their natural state. 



In this exhibit there are 1,200 pounds of 

 the best Vermont comb honey, and 20O 

 pounds of extracted honey, extracted oy 

 centrifugal force, with an extractor on view. 



A. C. Miller, of Drownville, ex-Secretary 

 of the Rhode Island Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, has an exhibition of coiuh honey, ex- 

 tracted honey, honey vinegar, and observa- 

 tory hive of bees, lisjlit comb foundation, a 

 machine for placinu the foundation in the 

 supers, and specimen hives for the produc- 

 tion of comb honey. 



Mrs. S. M. Lackey, of Providence, shows 

 observatory hives, samples of wax, comb 

 honey, extracted honey, and an extractor. 



Sam Warren Lewis shows 200 p(mnris of 

 extracted honey in glass, 10 pounds of comb 

 honey, and the largest display of beeswax, 

 one cake of which was made 31 years ago. 



S. A. Dexter shows an observatory hive, 

 showing the production of comb honey. 



