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Ohio exhibit, and to attend to some other 

 work in connection with an exhibit of bee- 

 keepers' supplies. 



Hon. Eugene Secor. the genial Judge of 

 all the apiarian exhibits at the Fair, was 

 there attending to his duties. His appoint- 

 ment gives entire satisfaction to all. 



Mr. O. L. Hershiser was in charge of the 

 New York State exhibit. He is a jovial, 

 wide-awake bee-man. He couldn't be any- 

 thing else, and get up such an exhibit as 

 that of New York, which includes six colo- 

 nies of bees. On July 12th he took off sev- 

 eral pounds of perfectly capped white 

 clover honey, gathered by bees from Mr. G. 

 M. Doolittle's apiary. This is perhaps the 

 first time that an apiarist has attempted to 

 have a practical apiary at a Fair. From 

 present indications he expects to secure 

 some two or three hundred pounds of honey 

 from his little apiary in the big Agricul- 

 tural BuUding. Mr. Hershiser had one of 

 H. P. Langdon's non-swarming devices in 

 practical operation. 



Mr. A. G. Hill, editor of the See-Keepers^ 

 Guide, was also there, to put in place the 

 Indiana honey exhibit. He informed us 

 that he had discontinued the publication of 

 the (Jukle, and would devote his time to the 

 supply business. The lieview is to fill out 

 the unexpired subscriptions of Mr. Hill's 

 late bee-paper. 



Mr. Pringle has put up a very attractive 

 exhibit for Ontario, Canada, and the day 

 we were there. Judge Secor had begun to 

 go over the display with Bro. Pringle, pre- 

 paratory to making the awards. 



A nice young man from Bro. Root's es- 

 tablishment was " taking in the Fair,'' and 

 we had the pleasure of meeting him. We 

 do not now recall his name, but we were 

 glad to see one from the "Root plantation." 



lliiriMHl to tlio 4Jroiiii(l We are 



very sorry to learn of the heavy loss by fire 

 that has come to the excellent firm of 

 Levering Bros., of Wiota, Iowa. On July 

 21st we received the following letter from 

 tliem, telling about their misfortune: 



Wiota. Iowa, July 20, 1893. 

 Geokge W. York & Co.— 



Dear Sirx :— On the night of the 17th, at 

 about midnight, our factory caught fire 

 ujBd burned to the ground, with a large 

 warehouse filled with supplies of all kinds. 

 Our loss is complete, as all our machinery 

 is ruined, and our loss is between 9;:ir),0()0 

 and iS;«),(KH); iusurauco :f;{,OUO. 



We have only one warehouse left, that 



contains sections and dovetailed hives, with 

 some smokers and extractors. It is a hard 

 blow on us, as our resources are all cut off, 

 and we are unable to meet all our obliga- 

 tions at present. Yours respectfully. 



Levering Bros. 



We hope our friends may soon be enabled 

 to recover from their terrible loss, and re- 

 build even greater than before, where now 

 are ashes and ruins. 



Jflr. II. Reepeii, our correspondent 

 in Germany, will not be able to come to 

 Chicago this year, as had been expected. 

 We have received the following letter from 

 him, dated July 3, 1893, which explains it- 

 self: 



Friend York : — Please let the readers of 

 the American Bee Journal know, that the 

 Minister of Agricultural Affairs has not 

 been able, to his great regret, to grant a 

 supporting for the delegate, as the funds 

 were not sufficient, and as I cannot afford 

 the long and expensive journey from my 

 own revenues, I am very sorry to say that 

 I cannot go to Chicago. 



Sincerely yours, 



H. Reepen. 



Mr. Reepen" s host of Ame|rican bee-keep- 

 ing friends will regret to learn the above 

 news, for doubtless many of them had 

 counted much upon seeing him at the great 

 bee-convention in October here in Chicago. 

 But if we cannot be favored with seeing 

 Mr. Reepen, we can at least have the pleas- 

 ure of reading his writings, some of which 

 are to be found on page 108 of this number 

 of the Bee Journal, and more will follow 

 latter. 



Houey AiiiilyMesii is the title of Bulle- 

 tin 96, just issued by the Michigan Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, under the direc- 

 tion of Prof. A. J. Cook. When mailing 

 the Bulletin to us the Professor wrote as 

 follows : 



Please urge all your readers to send to 

 Prof. Wiley, at Washington, D. C, any 

 kiLown honey. We should have many ana- 

 lyses made to get at the exact truth. We 

 ought to know the truth. This is impor- 

 tant, and now is the time. 



I will mail Bulletin No. 96 to all who 

 write for it. yours truly, 



A. J. Cook. 



Agricultural College, Mich., July 14, 1893. 



The Bulletin contains several tables show- 

 ing the results of the analyses of nearly 60 

 samples of houey by Prof. H. W. Wiley, of 

 the Department of Agriculture at Washing 

 ton ; by Prof. M. S. Scovell, Director of the 

 Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station 



