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and complexity of modern bee-culture; imparting the idea that the 

 bee business is auite a business — one that cannot be picked up and 

 learned in a day by some Tom, Dick or Harry. 



Anything that increases the consumption of honey is a benefit to 

 the pursuit; and, as usually managed, these bee and honey shows 

 call the attention of crowds of people to the excellence and delicious- 

 ness of honey as a food; and the producer and consumer are brought 

 face to face. At a fair, people are abroad with a disposition for 

 sight-seeing, investigation, and the purchase of novelties and nick- 

 nacks; and, a fine display of honey, together with its sale in fancy 

 packages, can not help benefiting the exhibitor as well as the pur- 

 suit. Honey to be sold at fairs ought to be put up in small packages. 

 It may be difficult to put it up in packages so small as to be sold at 

 five cents each, but I believe it has been done, while there is no diffi- 

 culty in putting honey in packages that may be sold for 10 or 25 

 cents each. People at fairs don't wish to be burdened with heavy 

 or bulky packages, and the honey must be put up in such shape that 

 it can be eaten on the grounds, or else carried in the pocket or hand 

 bag with no danger of leakage. 1 remember that, one year, at the 

 Michigan State fair, Mr. H. D. Cutting sold nearly S40 worth of honey 

 put up in pound and half-pound, square, glass bottles and in small 

 glass pails. One year, at the Detroit Exposition, at least 1,500 

 pounds of "honey jumbles" were sold at a cent apiece, by three ex- 

 hibitors in the bee and honey department. These "jumbles" are 

 made with honey instead of sugar, and, for this reason, retain the 

 desired amount of moisture for a long time. In selling them at a 

 fair, a box of them is opened, placed on the counter, and tipped 

 slightly outwards, so that visitors can easily look into it. The cakes 

 are round, with a hole in the middle, and the upper side is of agolden 

 yellow, with a sort of granular appearance that is very inviting. 

 This side of the cakes is turned uppermost. Paper sacks are filled 

 with cakes, putting five in a sack, and a neat placard announces: 

 "Honey Jumbles; Made vs^ith Honey Instead of Sugar. Five in a 

 Sack and Five Cents a Sack." Another thing that may be sold at an 

 apiarian exhibit with even greater profit than the honey jumbles, is 

 honey lemonade — if the weather is hot, if it isn't, there is no use of 

 attempting its sale. Here is the way to make it: Into 12 quarts of 

 water squeeze the juice of a dozen lemons, add two pounds of bass- 

 wood honey and a teacupful of sugar. Basswood honey being of 

 such a strong flavor, gives more of a honey flavor. Keep the lemon- 

 ade cool with ice in some large vessel. I used a stone ware churn. 

 Keep on the counter a glass pitcher filled with lemonade, putting in 

 small pieces of ice, also a few slices of lemon. Then have a placard 



