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CENTENNIAL. 



Tbe Premiums Awarded at the 

 Columbus Exposition. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



BY DR. A. B. MASON. 



I have been so busy since getting 

 home from Columbus, O., that it has 

 seemed impossible to write, and send 

 a list of premiums awarded in the Bee 

 and Honey Department of the Centen- 

 nial Exposition at Columbus, but I will 

 take the time this morning, 2 a.m. I 

 V'ant to give you an article cm the Ex- 

 position and the Bee and Honey De- 

 partment, but I shall have to do that 

 some other time. 



Mr. Elias Cole, of Ashley, O., was 

 awarded first premium on a founda- 

 tion mill, samples of foundation for 

 brood-chamber and surplus, and wax 

 extractor ; second premium on display 

 of extracted honey, and third on a 

 colony of bees, dis|)layof beeswax, di.s- 

 plaj' of queens, and bee-hive. 



Dr. G. L. Tinker, of New Phil.adel- 

 phia, O., was awarded first premium 

 on a colon}' of bees, bee-hive, exhibi- 

 tion bee-hive, arrangement for secur- 

 ing surplus, sections and su])plies; and 

 third on the best race of bees. 



Dr. H. Bcsse, of Delaware, O., was 

 awarded first premium on a smoker 

 (Bingham's) ; second on beeswax, 

 foundation mill, sections and supplies ; 

 and third premium on display of comb 

 honey, sample of comb honej", honey 

 extractor (Muth's), and wax extractor. 



Mr. C. E. .Jones, of Delaware, O., 

 was awarded second premium on dis- 

 play of comb honey, colony of bees, 

 race of bees, display of queens, extrac- 

 tor (Root's), wax-extractor, smoker, 

 and arrangement for securing surplus; 

 and third premium on a sample of ex- 

 tracted honey. 



Mr. Aaron Goodrich — a gentleman 

 over 7.5 years old — of Worthington, O., 

 was awarded third premium on a dis- 

 play of comb honey and a display of 

 beeswax ; second on a sample of honey- 

 vinegar, and third premium ou a dis- 

 play of extracted honey. 



Mrs. Mason, who has a larger api- 

 ary than I have, was awai'ded first 

 premium on a display of extracted 

 honey, sample of extracted honey, 

 sample of C(mib honey, race of bees, 

 honey-cake, honey-cookies, honej-- 

 jumbles, and honej-candies : and sec- 

 ond premium on honey-plants. 



E. E. Mason was awarded first on 

 foundation made on the grounds, for 

 brood-chamber and surplus ; second 



on sample of comb honey and honey- 

 candy ; third on honey-plants. 



If I am last on the list, and did not 

 get as many premiums as I might have 

 had if there had not been so much 

 competition, I was not "left out in the 

 cold " entirelj-. I was awarded first 

 premium on a display of honey-plants, 

 honey-vinegar, display of queens, foun- 

 dation press, and honey extractor ; 

 and second on sample of extracted 

 hone}% foundation for brood-chamber 

 and surplus, made on the ground ; 

 bee-hive and exhibition bee-hive ; and 

 third on supplies. 



If I had the time, and did not have 

 the " fear of the editor's waste-basket " 

 before me, I should like to write some- 

 what in detail of the Bee and Honey 

 Department and the exhibits, exhibi- 

 tors, and some of those who visited our 

 building during the Exposition, and it 

 may not be wholly uninteresting to saj' 

 something of our display, etc. 



A building 36x(i0 feet was put up 

 purposely for the apiarian department, 

 and was well filled with everything re- 

 lating to the apiary. 



Tbere were thirteen exhibitors, but 

 only eight competed for premiums, as 

 will be seen by the above list of 

 awards.. 



A. I. Root sent a whole carload of 

 appliances, and his display included 

 almost everything from a queen-cage 

 to machinery for making sections. It 

 is perfectly useless to attempt to 

 enumerate them, and he had two men 

 there all the time to look after and ex- 

 plain everything about which a ques- 

 tion might be asked, and to run the 

 four new machines for making one- 

 piece V-grooved sections. Mr. Root 

 did not compete for premiums. His 

 exhibit, without the machinery, occu- 

 pied a space of 8x40 feet, and the sec- 

 tion machinery occupied a space of 

 12x1.5 feet in machinery hall, and at- 

 tracted a great deal of attention from 

 the thousands and thousands of visi- 

 tors, during the seven weeks of the 

 Exposition. 



Too much could not be said in praise 

 of the gentlemanly conduct and ways 

 of the five dift'erent gentlemen Mr. 

 Root had at ditierent times at the Ex- 

 position, and it seems but natural to 

 mention Mr. Warner and Mr. Will 

 Turner, who were the first on the 

 grounds to put up the machinery and 

 get things in running order. Then 

 came Mr. Whipple, and Mr. Turner 

 went home. Then these were relieved, 

 and Mr. Art. Pulsifcr came and took 

 charge of the uiacliinery, and Mr. Will 

 Weed relieved ^Ir. Whipple. It was a 

 pleasure to niaki' tlie acquaintance of 

 those men, and to have their comjiany. 

 Mr. Aaron Goodrich, of Worthing- 

 ton. O., who keeps bees, as he said, 

 "just for the fun of the thing," occu- 



pied a space 20 feet ^ong by 7 feet 

 wide, and exhibited comb and ex- 

 tracted honey, honey-vinegar, and 

 beeswax, which was displayed on 

 shelves that extended up 9 feet. Mr. 

 Goodrich lives about nine miles north 

 of the Exposition grounds, and having 

 rather poor health, his family and 

 friends objected to his making an ex- 

 hibit, but his whole soul was in the 

 business, and he wanted to help show 

 the world what could be done in ex- 

 hibiting the progress of bee-keeping in 

 Ohio. He came from home to the 

 grounds every Monday morning, 

 bringing his " provendei*" (as he 

 called it) and bedding with him, and 

 staid in the building every night until 

 Saturday, when he would go home to 

 spend Sunday with his family. 



The first four weeks Mr. Goodrich 

 gained in flesh a pound a week, and 

 the next three weeks two pounds a 

 week, and before the Exposition was 

 over he got so that from eating just 

 enough to keep " soul and body to- 

 gether," he could, to use his own 

 words, "eat a good square meal, and 

 take his rations regularlj-." 



I could tell of a good many interest- 

 ing things about "Uncle Aaron," as 

 e\erybody calls him, and so did we 

 exhibitors, but it takes up valuable 

 space ; but the pleasure he enjoyed, 

 and his partial restoration to health, 

 more than paid him for all trouble and 

 expense. 



At some future time I will try to 

 write about the other exhibits, exhibi- 

 tors, etc., if acceptable ; but time for- 

 bids more at present. 



Auburndale, O., Nov. 12, 1888. 



BUCKWHEAT. 



Keeping a Record of eaeli 

 Colony in the Apiary. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



BY LESLIE STEW.^KT. 



It seems rather queer to me that 

 such bee-keepers as Messrs. G. M. 

 Doolittle, D. A. Jones, etc., should 

 not have found buckwheat a valuable 

 honey-plant, while with me here in 

 New York, it has not failed to give a 

 goodly amount of surplus in the last 

 seven years. In fact, I am beginning 

 to put more confidence in it for a large 

 amount of surplus than any honey- 

 producing plant we have in this 

 locality. To be sure, it has not quite 

 so fine a flavor as white clover or bass- 

 wood, nor .so light colored, and must 

 of course sell for a little less per 

 pound. 



I sell the extracted buckwheat honey 

 at 2 cents per pound less than white 

 clover or basswood honey ; yet I find 



