. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. C^"^'. ec Journal DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OE THE PRODUCERS OF HONEY. VOL. XIX. CHICAGO, ILL., DECEMBER 12, 1883. No. 50. Published every Wednesday, by THOMAS G. NEWMAN, Editor and Puopuietor, Prepare for the Fairs. The article on page 643, by the Rev. O. Clute, is very timely, for the usual January meetings of the Executive Committees of Fairs will soon be here. Public manipulations with bees and magnificent honey exhibits will soon become the most attractive features of State, County, and district Fairs. There are good many reasons for in- trod
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. C^"^'. ec Journal DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OE THE PRODUCERS OF HONEY. VOL. XIX. CHICAGO, ILL., DECEMBER 12, 1883. No. 50. Published every Wednesday, by THOMAS G. NEWMAN, Editor and Puopuietor, Prepare for the Fairs. The article on page 643, by the Rev. O. Clute, is very timely, for the usual January meetings of the Executive Committees of Fairs will soon be here. Public manipulations with bees and magnificent honey exhibits will soon become the most attractive features of State, County, and district Fairs. There are good many reasons for in- troducing such, but the chief one, perhaps, is that those who produce honey for the market may be induced to present it in the most marketable shape ; for the new methods and new idpas of practical management must take the place of the old and unde- sirable ones. We respectfully suggest to all who have the management of fairs, that a day be set apart during the season for public manipulations and explanations on this subject, and soon these indus- trial days wili become as popular and attractive to the public as are now the " speed days" of horses, or the " trial days " of reapers and plows. Bee-keeping should rank one of the foremost, if not the foremost, feature at these great gatherings. The prem- iums enumerated by Mr. Clute may seem slightly extravagant, to persons who have never seen bees and honey ligiu-e to any considerable extent in agricultural and mechanical exhibi- tions and fairs, but to any reflecting individual, who takes into considera- tion tlie magnitude of the bee-keeping interest at the present time, and the Illimitable millions of poundsof honey now "wasting its sweetness on the desert air," from want of the proper encouragement and development of the industry, the figures will seem modest indeed. Sheep and Bee-Keeping. An exchange gives the following reasons why bees cannot thrive on sheep pastiu'es, and insists upon bee- keepers
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