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its flavor of orange groves, while several were labeled Agave honey 
(miel de maguey). Altogether the exhibit would lead one to regard 
Mexico as a favorable region for this pursuit. 
RUSSIA. 
The Eussian exhibit was more complete than any other foreign rep- 
resentation, including, as it did, besides honey and wax, also hives and 
models of hives, various implements used in the apiary, comb founda- 
tion, and products of wax or honey. Many of the models and imple- 
ments were sent by the Agricultural Museum of St. Petersburg. The 
only full- sized frame hive in the collection, shown by the Eussian 
Society of Apiculture, was essentially a two-story Langstroth hive, the 
size of the frame being about that of the Quinby hanging frame. 
Eussia has of late copied much from French Switzerland in apicul- 
tural matters, and this country has adopted with eminent success many 
American methods. Langstroth's work, as revised by the Dadants, 
has recently been translated into Eussian. The extracted honey shown 
by Eussia was not of a very high grade, but some sections of comb- 
honey were very fine, both in quality and appearance. The sections 
were made of strips of glass. 
OTHER COUNTRIES. 
Among the foreign exhibits the following-named countries were rep- 
resented by entries which may be briefly passed over: Argentine 
Eepublic, wax of various grades ; Austria, wax candles; Brazil, dull 
gray wax and candles of dull yellow wax; Costa Eica had seven entries, 
noticeable among which was comb honey in American one-piece woodeu 
sections, the only ones in any of the foreign exhibits except those of 
Canada; Ecuador, wax; France, represented by Algeria, with four jars 
of honey and two separate lots of beeswax; also honey from the peni- 
tentiary of Tledes Pins, New Caledonia, and honey from Annam-Ton- 
kin; Germany, two entries of products; Guatemala, white, gray, and 
yellow wax, four jars of honey from cane (labeled "nriel de cana"); 
Haiti, one dozen jars dark liquid honey; Siam, one entry only; Spain 
had but one jar of honey on exhibition, but that was of exquisite qual- 
ity; the Spanish colony, Porto Eico, showed several specimens of wax 
of indifferent quality; Turkey, one dozen specimens of wax broken 
from larger cakes, not properly cleansed but otherwise good; Uruguay, 
yellow wax in bulk and very fine white wax candles ; Venezuela, a 
half dozen jars of strained honey of poor quality and four cakes of wax 
ranging from fair white to black. 
THE UNITED STATES. 
The special State exhibits in apiculture were shown in large glass 
cases located on the balcony in the southeast part of the Agricultural 
Building. There were eighteen of these cases, several of which were 
15 feet, and the rest, 25 feet long, 5 feet wide, and 10 feet high. 
