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Honey vineg-ar, not less than one gallon, shown in glass 6 3 



Assortment of honey candies 4 2 



Pastry made with honey instead of sugar 4 2 



Thebestspecimensof honey producing plants, pressed 



and mounted, not to exceed 25 varieties 15 8 



SWEEPSTAKES. 



The largest, best, most interesting, attractive and 

 instructive exhibition in this department, all 

 things considered 35 20 10 



I think bee-keepers would prefer to have "supplies" included in 

 the premium list, but the managers of fairs have decided against the 

 offering of premiums on such things, on account of the difficulty of 

 securing satisfactory decisions. The best we can do is to have a 

 "sweepstakes" premium offered upon the largest and best exhibit; 

 then supplies will count. 



A judge should never be compelled to take an exhibitor's word 

 for anything. Let the article exhibited show for itself. Don't offer 

 premiums on samples of different kinds of hoaey, when they can be 

 so easily gotten up for the occasion by mixing. Don't put at the 

 head of the list such requirements as: "Honey must be of this 

 season's crop;" or "Must be the product of the exhibitor;" when 

 there is no way of knowing whether they have been lived up to or 

 not. 



In my experience, one man to award the premiums, and he an 

 expert, has given better satisfaction than three judges. It is diffi- 

 cult and expensive to get three men that are experts, and, even then 

 the work is not always done so conscientiously, because it is not so 

 easy to place the responsibility; each being able to shield himself 

 behind the "other two." 



Upon this point of judging, there is one other point often neg- 

 lected that ought to be printed in connection with the premium list, 

 and that is a "scale of points" for deciding in regard to the merits 

 of exhibits. Particularly is this true in regard to honey. I would 

 suggest the following: Color, 5; body, 5; flavor, 5; comb — straight- 

 ness, 5; color of capping, 5; completeness of capping, 5; uniformity, 

 10; style, 10. Possible number of points, SO. By "uniformity" is 

 meant the closeness of resemblance in the sections composing a 

 specimen. "Style" including the attractiveness of the section and 

 case; also the absence of propolis. 



If a bee-keeper is going to make an exhibit of apiarian products, 

 it often happens that he can also make exhibits in other depart- 

 ments of the fair, I have exhibited photographs in the art depart- 



