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is very well arranged, and is indeed every 

 way creditable. 



Mr. Chas. White, of Aurora, Nebr., be- 

 sides having on exhibition his machine for 

 putting sections together and putting in 

 foundation, has one four-frame nucleus, 

 and also one one-frame nucleus of Italian 

 bees. He had a virgin queen sent from 

 Nebraska, and she was mated at the Fair 

 grounds, in all probability with a drone 

 from the bees of the New York State ex- 

 hibit. Mr. White is very proud of it, and 

 would not accept $10 for the queen. The 

 bees are in the window, and are viewed by 

 many hundreds of visitors every day, being 

 one of the "big attractions " in this de- 

 partment. " Buckskin Charley," as he is 

 called in Nebraska, is always on duty, and 

 ready to explain to interested listeners all 

 about bees and their management. He has 

 been looking after the exhibit in the ab- 

 sence of Bro. Whitcomb. 



In conclusion, permit us to say that if 

 our readers desire fuller particulars of this 

 exhibit, they should visit the Fair and see 

 it with their own eyes. The bee and honey 

 department in the Agricultural Building is 

 the greatest as well as sweetest attraction. 

 It is a splendid means of educating the pub- 

 lic upon the importance and extent of bee- 

 culture in America. Many are the expres- 

 sions of surprise and wonder that are ut- 

 tered by the endless procession of appre- 

 ciative visitors. 



Mr. W. I*, iyrossmam, of Ballinger, 

 Tex., we regret to say, has received severe 

 injuries upon one knee, which totally dis- 

 ables him for further queen-rearing this 

 season, and hence will be unable to fill any 

 more orders this year. He desires his cus- 

 tomers and friends to please take notice. 

 We hope Friend C. will soon recover and 

 be none the worse for his present misfor- 

 tune. 



Xlie liouisiiiiisi Hotel is the place 

 where the North American bee-convention 

 will be held on Oct. 11th, 12th and llith. See 

 the advertisement of the hotel on page 2D3 

 of this issue of the Bee Jouunal. Any of 

 our readers who may be (;oming to the 

 World's Fair before the convention is held, 

 would do well to " put up" at the Louisiana 

 Hotel. Full information about it is given 

 on page 292. 



EDWARD WIllTCOI*lB. 



There may be within the ranks of the 

 honeymen ■ — or honied men — a more 

 .iolly, good-natured, kind-hearted, and 

 thoroughly agreeable man than is Bro. 

 Whitcomb, of Friend, Nebr., but if there 

 is such, we have not met him. We have, 

 however, had the very great pleasure of 

 meeting the subject of this sketch sev- 

 eral times during the past few months, 

 and in him we feel that we, as well as 

 bee-keepers in general, have one whose 

 friendship we all may well be proud of. 



Mr. Whitcomb was born in Susque- 

 hanna county, Pa., on Oct. 24, 1843. 

 At the age of 10 years, or in 1854, his 

 parents moved to Lee county, Ills. At 

 the breaking out of the late War he en- 

 listed in Company A, 34th Illinois In- 

 fantry, and remained until the end of 

 that awful struggle. 



In 1870 he went to the progressive 

 State of Nebraska, and settled near 

 where the town of Friend now stands. 

 It has been said that he first engaged in 

 the bee-business while " soldiering" un- 

 der Gen. Thomas, in Kentucky, on 

 marching with Sherman to the Sea. He 

 has been President of the Nebraska 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association for the 

 past two years, and has had charge, or 

 has been the Superintendent, of the 

 Nebraska apiarian exhibit at the State 

 Fair for the past eight years. 



Mr. Whitcomb received bis appoint- 

 ment as Superintendent of the Nebraska 

 apiarian exliibit at the World's Fair, 

 through the urgent request of the State 

 bee-association. 



lie does not run a large apiary — from 

 25 to 30 colonies is the limit; but it is 

 as well kept as any in the United States, 

 and able to show as good results. 



Mr. W. is postmaster at Friend, and 

 is also the editor and proprietor of the 

 TcU'iirdph — a bright, newsy newspaper 

 pnblishcd where ho lives — which now is 

 ■making its Kith year, and is the oldest 

 paper in the county at this time. 



Judging from what we have heard, 



