Lffects of Such Exhibits. 331 
We have found here in Michigan that all that is necessary 
to effect this grand and invaluable transformation is a lit- 
tle life and energy on the part of the bee-keepers. Through 
the enterprise of Mr. H. D. Cutting and others, the bee- 
keeping exhibit at our State fairs, in a separate building, 
leaves little to be desired, and is a credit to the industry. 
EFFECTS OF SUCH EXHIBITS. 
They show that apiculture is no second-rate business. 
They attract attention and educate as nothing else can. 
They go hand in hand with local conventions in instruct- 
ing bee-keepers so that no inferior honey will go onto the 
markets. They enable bee-keepers to see and buy just 
what they need in the more intelligent prosecution of their 
business. They scatter the little pint, half-pint, and gill 
pails of honey into thousands of homes, and develop a 
knowledge and taste that stimulate the honey market most 
powerfully. Tons of honey have been sold at the Toronto 
fairs, the influence of which has been a lasting surprise even 
to the most enterprising ‘producers. I believe that the 
great quartet that is to advance apiculture is fairs, associa- 
tions, planting for honey, and improved bees, 
