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pyramid was set a large number of two-pound, square bottles of 

 honey. On top of the bottles was laid a platform of glass made by 

 putting together two sheets of double-strength glass, bound together 

 at the edges with cloth pasted on and covered with gilt paper. Up- 

 on the glass platform was set more bottles, then another sheet of 

 glass a little smaller than the first one, and so on up, until a pyramid 

 of extracted honey was constructed upon the top of the pyramid of 

 comb honey, the former being surmounted by a huge boquet of 

 golden rod. I remember building one such pyramid that was 16 



Exhibit of Mr. M. H. Hunt, as Shown one Year at the Detroit Exposition. 



feet in height. The spaces between the outer ends of the cases in 

 the comb honey part of the pyramid was filled with small, "dime" 

 bottles of honey. By thus combining the comb and extracted honej' 

 display, one "sets off" the other; in fact, my competitors sometimes 

 complained of this, but it was their privilege to have taken advantage 

 of this fact had they so chosen. Mr.' M. H. Hunt one year had a 

 castle in which the pillars were cases of comb honey piled up, and 



