Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-04-26
LIVE BEE EXHIBIT.
Gathering ana storirs Sweets at the
Pan-Aucrican Exposition.

Gathering ana SforiES Sweets at the
Pan-Arncrican Exposition.
The manner In which the little bee
improves each shining hour will be
practically illustrated ct the Pan
American Exposition, arrangements
having been made for establishing an
apary on the grounds. The exhibit
will be novel and attractive. Bees
will be shown gathering sweets from
flowers and storing them in cells in
glass hives. This sight will be inter-
esting to al Exposition visitors and
entirely new to perhaps all but about
per cent of the whole number.
Each state or section of country pro-
duces several different varieties Of hon
ey, and honey produced in one locality
may be vastly different from the prod
uct of another. In making an exhibit
of this character proper attention
should be given to the classification of
the different varieties in order to make
the exhibit as interesting ms possible,
and this will be done in the New York
division. which will show honey pro-
duced from 10 varieties of flowers,
notably apple bloom, white clover,
sweet clover, linden basswood), buck
wheat, golden rod and some others, the
honey from these sources coming from
those parts of the state in which the
respective iiora is most abundant
The live bee exhibit will comprise
ten hives Of bees, including such well
known varieties as Italian, Ca;nIonans,
Cyprlans and the common black bee.
The comb honey exhibit will include
upward of $500 pounds of comb honey,
and about the same amount of extract
honey will be shown.
There will be an important exhibit of
beeswax and manufactures from the
same. The uses of honey, as in baking
powder, preserving, ETC., will be shown.
There will be very comprehensive
| exhibit of Agriculture and its develop
ment into an important branch of rural
husbandry and source of revenue to the
state.
An exhibit of some of the most i'm
portant plants producing flowers In
connection with the bee show is con-
templated. 1t is proposed to grow
buckwheat, golden rod and various
Towering plants convenient to the
hives.
| The relation of bees to horticulture
| will be shown, the design being to
prove that the bees are of far greater
| Importance to the horticultural inter-
ests than is generally supposed. This
will tend to show that the pollenation
Of fruit bloom in early spring, when
the insects are not so numerous as lat
er in the season, is matter of great
| Importance to horticulturists, as with
out the aid of the bees the fruit crop
would be very much lessened.
The New York State Bee and Honey
exhibit at the Pan-American Exposi-
| tiOn is destined to be the most compre-
hensiye ever made, and while great
! pains will be taken to make 1t very en-
| tertaining it will be none the less in
structive on that account
Other states. territories and coun-
tries are making plans for suitable ex-
hibits. Michigan and Wisconsin are
expected TO make big shows. The
npiarists of Canada nrc deeply inter
csted and prchisc display worthy of
the extensive apiarian interests in that
| country.
There will also be great number OF
individual exhibits. and these will in.
clude all manner of articles designed
to assist the apiarian in his work
The management OF the Exposition
| assures the aparists that the extent
and size of the bee exhibit will depend
largely upon their needs and desires
and from the present outlook 1t would
appear that the apiarian exhibit win bC
installed in building about 60 by 15(
feet and two stories high, or about the
size OF the handsome dairy building.
OREN l.. HERsHIsER,
/ Superintendent New York State Apla
rian Exhibit.