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two feet from the floor, being supported by blocks or boxes. Attached 

 to the edge of this wheel, and hanging down, for all the world, like a 

 woman's skirt, was a sort of valance made of thin blue cambric orna- 

 mented with some neat design of gilt paper fastened on with paste. 

 .Vround the edge of the wheel, upon its upper surface, was set a row 

 of shipping-cases of comb honey, with glass sides turned out. On top 

 of this row was set another row, the cases of this row breaking joints 

 with the one below. Perhaps four rows were placed in this manner, 

 then the cases were turned so tlie long way of the cases faced out- 

 ward, a fewer number of cases making a row that was slightly smaller 

 than the others. Perhaps four rows were put up in this style, then 

 they were again changed so that the narrow ends were outward, which 

 again reduced the size of the circle. In this manner the size of the 

 circles was gradually diminished as the pyramid increased in height, 

 until its top was only two feet across. That these cases might not be 

 jarred out of place they were fastened to one another by means of 

 small wire nails. Upon the top of this 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. Upon the glass platform were set more bottles, 

 then another sheet of glass a little smaller than the first one, and so on 

 up, until a pyramid of extracted hone\- was constructed upon the top 

 of the pyramid of comb honey, the former being surmounted by a 

 huge bouquet of goldenrod. I remember building one such p3rramid 

 that ^vas 16 feet in height. The spaces between the outer ends of the 

 cases in the comb-honey part of the pyramid were filled with small 

 "dime" bottles of honey. B\' thus combining the comb and extracted 

 honey display, one "sets off" the other ; in fact, my competitors some- 

 times ciimplained of this, but it was their privilege to have taken ad- 

 vantage of this fact liad they so chosen. Mr. ]M. IT. Hunt one year 

 had a castle in which the pillars were cases of comb honev piled up, 

 and the balustrade was formed from panels of beautifully molded bees- 

 wax. 



There is seldom a fairground with no bees near it, hence no honey 

 should be exposed. All honey should be shut up close, and no stickiness 

 left on the outside of the package. \\'a.x should be molded into fanci- 

 ful shapes — statues, or something of that sort, if the exhibitor has the 

 skill to make them. Fruits, vegetables, ears of corn, and the like, 

 may be made of wax by first making molds, of plaster of Paris, from 

 the objects themselves. It is not necessary that the articles be solid 

 wax. First soak the molds in water, then pour in a small quantity 

 of melted wax; close the molds, and then immediately shake them vig- 



