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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. 



