Gleanings in bee culture . THE APIARIAN EXHIBIT AT THE COLUMBUS STATP: FAIR IN SEPTEMBER, 1906. yellow wax from the Weed sheeter. Wood-en letters were then dipped in melted waxand secured to the several steps of the pyra-mid by means of nails. But, you ask,how did you make the goddess ! We ob-tained a plaster cast, for a nominal sum, andthen gave her two or three plunges into some melted wax. When she came out of her bathshe looked as if she were made of a solidchunk of beeswax. A separate view of thepyramid here shown will give one a littleidea of the detail of the construction. The remaining
Gleanings in bee culture . THE APIARIAN EXHIBIT AT THE COLUMBUS STATP: FAIR IN SEPTEMBER, 1906. yellow wax from the Weed sheeter. Wood-en letters were then dipped in melted waxand secured to the several steps of the pyra-mid by means of nails. But, you ask,how did you make the goddess ! We ob-tained a plaster cast, for a nominal sum, andthen gave her two or three plunges into some melted wax. When she came out of her bathshe looked as if she were made of a solidchunk of beeswax. A separate view of thepyramid here shown will give one a littleidea of the detail of the construction. The remaining view is a snapshot of ouroutdoor exhibit and honey-sales stand. These. THE DEMONSTRATION WORK AT THE COLUMBUS STATE FAIR. 1907 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 327 were entirely separate and distinct from thatinside. At tlie former we were permitted tosell honey, honey-cakes, and the like. Todraw crowds we put one of our men insidethe cage with a colony of bees. The variousstunts that he performed have been givenbefore in these columns, and we will not re-peat them now. But it is sufficient to statethat it was a drawing card and a great suc-cess. The view here shown is a fair average ofthe crowds that assembled around the cage,not of the big jams that at times were seenthere. Perhaps it would be well to explain thatdental wax is now coming to be quite a com-modity. It was for that reason that the ar-ticle is mentioned on one of the blocks ofthe pyramid. «««« EUCALYPTUS. BY W. K. MORRISON. The eucalyptus family are famous honey-yielders in their native home, Australia,New Zealand, and Tasmania, and, to a cer-tain extent, in California, where thirty orforty s
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