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Some ask what money is needed for, and the speaker replied that it is 

 needed to procure, transport, organize, and take good care of exhibits, ai^' 

 may be particularized thus: 



1. To pay a competent person for time and diligent work for a year, 

 or more, to procure, arrange, and superintend an exhibit which shall be a 

 credit to the State . / 



2. He will need many assistants during the entire time of holding the 

 Columbian Fair, to care for and protect from damage or waste, the many 

 articles exhibited, as well as to keep them clean and in proper condition for 

 thorough examination by the millions of visitors. These must be efficient, 

 persons, and will have jto be suitably paid . 



3. Products of the apiary, machinery and appliances will have to be 

 transported to the Fair Grounds, and this will entail considerable expense. 



4 . We do not desire a seperate building for the industry of bee-keep- 

 ing, but it will be necessary to fit up a large space in one of the principal 

 buildings devoted to agriculture, horticulture or floriculture. To make it 

 convenient, and have it attractively decorated, will cost money, but it will 

 be well spent, nevertheless, for the general verdict at all Fairs, is that the 

 Bee and Honey Department is the most attractive thing on the grounds. 



5. At the close of the World's Fair all the sfoods exhibited must be 

 carefullv packed and rethqigfj to the owners . This item of expense for 

 labor, material, drayage and railwav transportation will be ver\f large on 

 account of the care required in handlina: and packing, so as not to destroy 

 the values. H^ney in the comb (in all forms and shapes imaginable) is 

 delicate and fragile, and the utmost care will be required to prevent its 

 being damap^ed or mined entirelv. ^. • 



6. And last but not least, cash prizes, medrfls and <|iplomas will of 

 necessity be required to bring out an exhibit, which will ho^or the State. 

 This item must necessarily be a large one, for upon it will depend the suc- 

 cess of the entire undertaking. ( 



These are a few of the things that will require money, and for which a 

 liberal appropriation is desired from the public Treasury. 



The question of making exhibits at State, county and local fairs, he 

 said^ was one of the greatest importance to those engagjed in bee culture. 

 It is not enough to form societies and hold conventions for the purpose of 

 instructine bee-keepers as to the best methods of preparing bees for winter, 

 or of producing honey for market, or as to the best race of bees ; we have 

 but half done our work when we have learned alli,the improvements our 

 fellow apiarist employs, or taught him all we know. There is a vast public 

 which needs educating as to the value of honey for dietic and medicinal 

 consumption. Their prejudices must be removed, and a desire andtaste 

 created for honey, as now exists for sugar and syrup's. Bee papers cannot 

 accomplish this work, because they circulate wholly among that class of 

 people who already appreciate the value of honey; it cannot be done 



