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vinegar. The honey is drained from the cappings, which 

 are then covered for an hour or two with water. The cap- 

 pings from 1,000 pounds of honey will sweeten enough 

 water for 45 gallons of vinegar. The water is now 

 drained into an open barrel, which should be kept cov- 

 ered with cloth. The scum should be removed as it 

 rises. In about a year the change to first-class vinegar 

 will have been accomplished. After the water is drained 

 from the cappings they can be converted into pure wax, as 

 already described. 



The poorer grades of honey may also be profitably used 

 in the same way. One pound of honey will make one gal- 

 lon of the best vinegar. 



FAIRS AND THE MARKET. 



Our English friends have demonstrated that large honey 

 exhibitions are a most powerful aid in developing the honey 

 market. 



Till within two yeai's our American honey exhibits have 

 been a disgrace and a hindrance, and they are largely so 

 to-day. A little second-rate honey sandwiched in with 

 sugar and syrups, and supplemented by a cake or two of 

 black dirty wax, describes the honey exhibit at most of our 

 fairs to-day. The premiums range from twenty-five cents 

 to fifty cents. 



WHAT SHOULD WE HAVE? 



Our industry demands a separate building, filled with 

 tons, not pounds, of honey, and exhibiting every thing that 

 is valuable in modern apiculture. Bees may be exhibited 

 in hives covered by wire gauze, and if it is desired to 

 manipulate them, this can be readily done in a bee tent, to 

 the great satisfaction and pleasure of many who know 

 nothing of such matters. I have proved this by actual trial. 



It can be arranged with the managers that sales of honey 

 and all apparatus be made at any time at this building, on 

 conditions that the exhibit should be in nowise interfered 

 with. The premiums should range from one dollar to 

 twenty, and the total should reach to the hundreds. 



