. Biennial report of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture. • Department of Agriculture 93. A Corner of Honey Exhibit at Tennessee State Fair, 1912. Entomology instructed me to at once join the train at Franklin, Tenn., with an apiary exhibit, and spend the months of July and August in an educational campaign in the interest of the bee-keeping industry. The exhibit, being hastily prepared, was not as complete as desired. It consisted, however, of observatory and working hives, with frames of foundation drawn comb, division boards, and queen excluders; ex- tractor, an uncapping melter, smo
. Biennial report of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture. • Department of Agriculture 93. A Corner of Honey Exhibit at Tennessee State Fair, 1912. Entomology instructed me to at once join the train at Franklin, Tenn., with an apiary exhibit, and spend the months of July and August in an educational campaign in the interest of the bee-keeping industry. The exhibit, being hastily prepared, was not as complete as desired. It consisted, however, of observatory and working hives, with frames of foundation drawn comb, division boards, and queen excluders; ex- tractor, an uncapping melter, smoker, veils, hive tools, feeders, ex- tracted and comb honey, specimens of Caucasian, German and Italian queens a^d a good working colony of bees in an observatory hive, with super. This apiary exhibit, while small, proved one of the most at- tractive exhibits on the train. A working colony of bees in an ob- servatory hive with glass sides, so the bees could be seen in their movements over the comb, was an interesting revelation to the thou- sands of people who passed through the train. Demonstrations and instructions in bee-keeping were given in the car by the exhibit at every stop the train made throughout the State. In addition to these demonstrations in the car, about one hundred open-air lectures were given on bee-keeping as a practical and profita- ble industry. Literature on bee-keeping as a practical and profitable industry was distributed until the supply was exhausted. Much interest was. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tennessee. Dept. of Agriculture. Nashville, Tenn. : The Dept.
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