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would have been nearer the mark, although 

 beyond it. 



In the last paragraph, on page 138, you 

 state, in substance, that 43 New York bee- 

 keepers contributed, or are represented by. 

 100 pounds of comb honey and .50 pounds of 

 extracted honey, each. I have been in- 

 formed that all the comb honey exhibited 

 in the largest case was purchased of one 

 bee-keeper, and the other and smaller case 

 contains but little, if any, more than one- 

 fourth as much. I understand that none of 

 the honey was donated or loaned to the 

 State for the exhibit, but that all of it was 

 bought by the State. 



If I am correctly informed, all of the 

 honey exhibited by Ontario, was either 

 donated or loaned for the exhibit, and I 

 think it speaks well for, and is a credit to, 

 the Canadian bee-keepers who have shown 

 so much interest in their exhibit. It doesn't 

 seem to me that a bee-keeper is entitled to 

 much, if any, credit for selling his honey to 

 the State, but the honor goes to those who 

 have loaned or donated honey for an exhibit. 



The New York comb honey is no whiter 

 (if as white) than that from Ontario or 

 Ohio, and the New York sections are much 

 less perfectly filled. My recollection is, 

 that neither Ontario nor Ohio has a section 

 of honey on exhibition that is not better 

 and more perfectly filled at the sides than 

 is the best section in the New York exhibit. 



I believe that the comb honey produced 

 by J. B. Hall, of Woodstock, Ont., is a 

 " leetle bit" the nicest on exhibition, al- 

 though some I have on exhibition is a little 

 the whitest, but not quite as perfectly 

 filled. 



When I left the World's Fair, last Friday, 

 the Michigan exhibit was being put in 

 place by Mr. H. D. Cutting, of Tecumseh, 

 Mich. He had already received about 1,000 

 pounds of comb honey, which is loaned by 

 Hon. Geo. E. Hilton, of Fremont, for the 

 exhibit. Mr. Cutting expected as much 

 from Hon. R. L. Taylor, of Lapeer, also 

 loaned; and was looking for more comb 

 and extracted honey from other bee-keep- 

 ers, that had already been shipped, making 

 their comb honey exhibit within a few hun- 

 dred pounds (300, perhaps) of being as large 

 as the New York comb honey exhibit. 



Messrs. J. M. Hambaugh and J. A. Stone 

 had just got their cases in place for the 

 Illinois State exhibit. They have four 

 cases, one being 25 feet long, and the other 

 three about 14 feet long each , and as they 

 have the money to do it with, if they don't 

 make the finest honey exhibit of any, it 

 wiU certainly be their own fault. 



Very truly yours, 



A. B. Mason. 



Well, Doctor, you have made our edi- 

 torial on the New York honey exhibit look 

 " rather sick." We want to say right here, 

 that we were not "guessing" about the 

 matter at all, but supposed our source of 

 information regarding the exhibit was en- 

 tirely reliable. We can assure you that 

 our intentions were good, even though some 



things appear to be a "leetle bit" misrep- 

 resented. No doubt in the last paragraph 

 that Dr. M. ci'iticises, we should have said 

 that " the following list of New York bee- 

 keepers each applied for space to be repre- 

 sented," etc. It may be that some of them 

 afterward failed to get any honey to ex- 

 hibit. 



The Ohio exhibit certainly is a very at- 

 tractive one, and the exhibits of Ontario, 

 Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and other 

 States, are all good. 



To show the variety of opinions of the 

 honey exhibit of New York, we might give 

 the following as samples : 



Many visitors passing along have been 

 heard to exclaim, "My! What a lot of 

 honey !" Another, a prominent bee-keeper, 

 and an excellent judge of honey-shows, 

 said, when he saw it, " Oh, you've got a 

 warehouse here ; honey piled up for sale!" 



While we expect to . have every State 

 honey exhibit described in these columns 

 for the benefit of our readers, yet we hope 

 no one will think that we are prejudiced in 

 favor of any particular exhibit or exhibi- 

 tor, for we are not. We only desire that 

 bee-culture shall be justly represented 

 among other things shown at the great 

 World's Fair, but of course expect that 

 there will be some good-natured rivalry in 

 connection with it. 



Xlie i¥iiml>er of Sections made in 

 1892 by the enterprising firm of G. B. Lewis 

 Co., of Watertown, Wis., was between 10 

 and 12 millions. At the end of this year, 

 Oleardngs proposes to publish a list of the 

 section manufacturers, and the number of 

 sections they made during 1893. It will be 

 an interesting showing, no doubt, and Bro. 

 Root thinks that from such exhibit ' ' some 

 idea "of the amount of comb honey pro- 

 duced this year in the United States could 

 be obtained, of course allowing for unsold 

 sections and partly filled ones. 



At a rough guess, or estimate on the sec- 

 tion basis, Bro. Root thinks there were 

 from 25 to 30 million pounds of comb 

 honey produced in this country in 1892, and 

 that in a good year that amount would be 

 nearly doubled, or say 50 million pounds. 

 Allowing as much more for extracted 

 honey, there would be an aggregate of 100 

 million pounds, or 50,000 tons of honey! 



He says further: " This would be, how- 

 ever, only about 22 ounces for every inhabi- 



