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Fairs, 



made at any time at this building, on conditions that the ex- 

 hibit should be in nowise interfered with. The premiums 



Fig. 120. 



should range from one dollar to twenty, and the total should 

 reach to the hundreds. 



We find here in Michigan that all that is necessary to effect 

 this grand and invaluable transformation is a little life and 

 energy on the part of the bee-keepers. 



EFFECTS OF SUCH EXHIBITS. 



They would show that apiculture is no second rate business. 

 They would attract attention and educate as nothing else 

 would. They would go hand in hand with local conventions 

 in instructing bee-keepers so that no inferior honey would go 

 onto the markets. They would enable bee-keepers to see and 

 buy just what they need in the more intelligent prosecution of 

 their business. They would scatter the little pint, half-pint, 

 and gill pails of honey into thousands of homes, and develop 

 a knowledge and taste that would 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, associations, 

 planting for honey, and improved bees. 



