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vinegar. The honey is drained from the cappings, which 
are then covered for an hour or two with water. The cap- 
pings from 1,000 pounds of honey will sweeten enough 
water for 45 gallons of vinegar. The water is now 
drained into an open barrel, which should be kept cov- 
ered with cloth. The scum should be removed as it 
rises. In about a year the change to first-class vinegar 
will have been accomplished. After the water is drained 
from the cappings they can be converted into pure wax, as 
already described. 
The poorer grades of honey may also be profitably used 
in the same way. One pound of honey will make one gal- 
lon of the best vinegar. 
FAIRS AND THE MARKET. 
Our English friends have demonstrated that large honey 
exhibitions are a most powerful aid in developing the honey 
market. 
Till within two years our American honey exhibits have 
been a disgrace and a hindrance, and they are largely so 
to-day. A little second-rate honey sandwiched in with 
sugar and syrups, and supplemented by a cake or two of 
black dirty wax, describes the honey exhibit at most of our 
fairs to-day. The premiums range from twenty-five cents 
to fifty cents. 
WHAT SHOULD WE HAVE? 
Our industry demands a separate building, filled with 
tons, not pounds, of honey, and exhibiting every thing that 
is valuable in modern apiculture. Bees may be exhibited 
in hives covered by wire gauze, and if it is desired to 
manipulate them, this can be readily done in a bee tent, to 
the great satisfaction and pleasure of many who know 
nothing of such matters. I have proved this by actual trial. 
It can be arranged with the managers that sales of honey 
and all apparatus be made at any time at this building, on 
conditions that the exhibit should be in nowise interfered 
with. The premiums should range from one dollar to 
twenty, and the total should reach to the hundreds, 
