HONEY EXHIBITS 
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Exhibit of J. M. Buchanan, Franklin, Tenn., at Tennessee State Fair, Nashville, October 9, 1909. 
finely marked bees, and a bright-yellow 
queen. Hundreds of people will stop and 
examine, and ask a variety of questions 
about the bees and the queen. 
Observation hive and comb-honey super. 
Bees in an observatory hive will stand 
confinement for two or three days but not 
longer. Ordinarily at fairs and other 
places, where the show lasts only two or 
three days, the confined bees will do very 
well. But at expositions, where they are 
shown week after week, it is necessary to 
give them a flight every two or three days. 
Some arrangement should be made with 
the management by which these glass hives 
may be placed next to the Avail of the 
building, the entrance communicating with 
a hole thru the building. Where this can 
not be done, one can have tAvo or three ob¬ 
servatory hives, and keep one or two on 
exhibition all the time Avhile the other is 
being freshened up by a flight outdoors. 
After these latter have had two or three 
days in Avhich to cleanse themselves the 
entrance is closed at night, Avhen the hive 
is set back on its stand, and another ob¬ 
servatory hive takes its place. Thus in 
alternation each one of the two or three 
lots of bees can be freshened up. 
Where it is impossible to place the ob¬ 
servatory hive next to the outside Avail of 
the building, a long tube from the hive 
communicating with the outside wall of 
the building can sometimes be used. But 
the distance must not be over eight or ten 
feet.* The hees, strange as it may seem, 
* The exit from the building should be above the 
heads of pedestrians. To make this possible, the 
tube will have to slant upward from the hive. 
