Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-08


and during that time has won innumer-
able prizes.
The Governor was to be the guest Of
the State board of agriculture at lunch
con today, together with the presidents
of the Illinois Central and the Monon
Railroads.
Yesterdays attendance at the fair was
sO.o71. while on Wednesday of last year
it was 30,0jS
A bee doesn't seem much by itself, but
collectively it's an impressive crowd. TINS
is demonstrated when. in a swarm, they
group themselves affectionately on the
head and shoulders Of c. O. Yost chief
inspector Of apiaries. department of con
servation, division of entomology, OF the
State.
The divisions Of entomology and fores
try have an interesting display at the
state Fair, and .ope Of the most Interest
ing features Of the display are the bees
and the equipment used in working WITH
them.
In a large screened cage there are n
number Of bees, together with their home
and in this cage. which is most lively
place. demonstrations are given as to the
care OF bees.
Bees that have wandered from the cage
or from Mr. Yost hover about on the
outside not bothering anyone. They
don't like to be caressed. however-that
was demonstrated yesterday afternoon
when one Of the members Of the depart
ment. in speaking Of the bees, picked up
one. He either squeezed It n hit too
hard or rubbed its pelt the wrong way,
for It jabbed It's sting into bis thumb
Calmly he picked out the sting; ex
planned it's construction; started to brush
it from his hand. and jabbed it into his
thumb again. And even at that he didn't
even~raise his voice.
BEES SWARM ON
DEMONSTRATORS HEAD.
Meanwhile. Mr. Yosf was talking bees
to a crowd that had collected while clus-
tered on his head and shoulders like a
helmet was an immense family of bees
leaving not much more than his nose
, mouth mustache and one eye exposed to
view. They didn't bother him any and
he didn't bother them. except once or
twice "when one that was especially ven
turesome and athletic tried to swing on
his mustache and then he would brush
it away as an obstruction to speech
He was asked if they even crawled into
his ears while wearing them that way,
and calmly replied that only the young
ones would DO that-that there was one
in his ear at he time.
That the bees are a thrifty set Is evil
denced by the fact that they took their
own box lunches to the fair--houey they
had been putting up for winter con-
sumption or for just such a holiday.
/ In the Merchants building, one Of the
/ interesting displays is from upper Wis
consin. shown by the Wisconsin State
Depa rtment of Agriculture, division OF
immigration, and including such prod
ucts fths soil as pumpkins squashes
( oats, barley. rye, clover. potatoes, apples,
sun6owers and a bewildering variety of
beans
Tractors driven with reins like team
of horses and that circle round and
round in an enclosure, hauling reapers
and other appurtenances Of agricultural
activities, and miniature tractor that
makes its lonely little way around and
around miniature track not much larger
than itself, without a guiding hand. arc
two Of the numerous attractions shown
In the display of tractors and farming
machinery.
EVERY KIND
OF TRACTOR
There are steam tractors and gasoline
tractors and oil tractors and tractors
that use either oil gasoline-big trac-
tors that look if they weighed as
much as a switch engine and little trac
/ tors that are sort of in the bantam
class.
! There are thrashing machines, and en-
silage cutters and blowers. and a big
gravel screen and loader that takes the
! gravel from a bin, separates it into four
! distinct sizes and stores 1t away in com.
| partments from which it can be dumped
| Into waiting wagons. There are various
types of road neutrality-suspicious. and q
| road planer and finisher SO constructed
with four planes that those on the side
can be lifted to allow the passage OF
vehicles or the passage of the machine
itself through a comparatively narrow
! space
| There Is tractor so suspended. for
| purpose Of demonstration-in a heavy
| framework, that, by means of steel ca
| bles around its driving wheels. it lifts
and lowers ITSELF thereby excelling the
| efforts OF youths in days gone by to lift
themselves ly their own bootstraps and
there are caterpillars, not of the woody
| kind, but of the tractor variety; and
| there are pickers and huskers and har-
| rows. But this really Is only a brief
outline of what The display contains.