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New Yoek at the "Woeld's Columbian Exposition-. 



The space allotted for the exhibit was occupied by two cases, each 

 twenty -live feet long by four feet four inches Made and eleven feet 

 high, two cases each ten feet long by four feet four inches wide, and 

 one case sixteen feet long, five feet wide and eleven feet high. The 

 last case was used for the exhibit of live bees. Samples of the crop of 

 1892 were collected in Buffalo during the months of January, February 

 and March, 1893, and shipped thence to the fair. The exhibits of the 

 crop of 1893 were in part collected in Buffalo, and in part shipped 

 direct by the exhibitors. For the most part the specimens of the crop 

 of 1892 were paid for out of the State appropriation ; those of 1893 

 were lent by the individual exhibitors. The exhibit consisted of about 

 6,000 pounds of comb honey, 3,000 pounds of extracted honey, fruits 

 preserved in honey, beeswax, the honey producing flora of the State, 

 pastry made with honey sweetening, honey vinegar, metheglin, pickles 

 made with honey vinegar, honey soap, honey cough syrup, salves and 

 leather dressing made from the beeswax, several styles of beehives, so 

 arranged as to illustrate the progress of apiculture from its primitive 

 state, and all appliances used by progressive apiarists, including the 

 honey extractor, wax extractor, bee smokers, bee escapes, swarm 

 catchers, queen cages and queen excluders, new swarming devices and 

 samples of comb foundation. Sixteen varieties of honey were shown, 

 viz. : Linden or basswood, white clover, alsike clover, sweet clover, 

 applebloom, raspberry, dandelion, golden-rod, aster, mustard, buck- 

 wheat, sumach, heartsease, locust, boneset and thistle. 



The bee exhibit consisted of six hives of bees, comprising two colonies 

 of leather-colored Italian bees, one of golden Italian bees, two of 

 Carniolian bees, and one of common black bees. It was designed that 

 the bee exhibit should be a practical demonstration of the methods of 

 producing both comb and extracted honey, and accordingly openings in 

 the wall of the building were made so that the bees might fly from and 

 to their hives in the natural way. Inasmuch as the six hives of bees 

 produced during the summer, under the most unfavorable circum- 

 stances, 252 pounds of honey, 112 pounds of which was in the comb, 

 this part of the apiarian exhibit was successful beyond expectation. It 

 was an easy matter to show the methods of bee-keeping, but the prac- 

 tical results were a surprise. Eleven awards were made to exhibitors in 

 the New York apiarian department. This is nearly twice as many as 

 were given to any other State. 



GEOUP 3. HONEY. 



Andrews, Miss E. E., Coventry ville; 

 comb honey. 



Andrews, John, Patten's Mills; 3 nu- 

 cleus colonies Carniolian bees, 



Bailey, Gt. W., & Son, Ovid; extracted 

 honey. 



Berry, Mrs. M. L., Big Tree; wax sea 

 shells made from bleached beeswax. 



Bosworth, W. V., Clockville; comb 

 honey, extracted honey. 



Briggs, Edgar, Poughkeepsie; white 

 clover comb honey; white clover ex- 

 tracted honey. 



Coggshall, David, West Groton; comb 

 honey, extracted honey. 



Crosby, B. A., Sardinia; extracted honey. 



Cyrenus, F. H., Oswego; designs and 

 initials worked in comb honey by bees, 

 two honey combs nearly four feet long 

 and four inches thick. 



Davis, Hiram H., Deansville; comb 

 honey, extracted honey. 



Dawns, Ira, Irona; extracted honey. 



Dimick, Jay, Rices; comb honey. 



Dodd, Charles F., Rushville; extracted 

 honey. 



