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cupies only 440 square feet, or less than 

 one-third the space claimed ; and the 

 contents of the case said to be 18x5 

 feet square is practically not on exhibi- 

 tion, one side and both ends of the case 

 beins part of the building and case, and 

 entirely hid from view, and' the other side 

 almost constantly closed with curtains. 



I shall have to admit the truthfulness 

 of Mr. H.'s statement when he says, 

 " This was not, however, a case where 

 the 'crooked was made straight,' but 

 exactly the opposite," for it was not the 

 editor that was " crooked," but rather 

 Mr. H., and my unsophisticated effort to 

 right the editor has led Mr. H. to reiter- 

 ate the crookedness. 



I beg to ask the readers, notwith- 

 standing Mr. H.'s reference to my being 

 "noted for jocularity," to take my 

 " statements seriously," for when I said 

 (in reference to the claim of there being 

 5,000 pounds of comb honey and 3,000 

 pounds of extracted honey on exhibition 

 in the New York cases), "If you will 

 just cut your figures in two, saying 

 2,500 and 1,500 pounds, respectively, 

 you will be much nearer the mark," I 

 said just exactly what I meant, having 

 in mind that I might be called to account 

 for it, in which it appears I was not mis- 

 taken. Like Mr. H., I "made no at- 

 tempt at absolute accuracy," but having 

 read the editor's, or Mr. H.'s, editorial, 

 I did take the pains to count, as did 

 other exhibitors, the number of sections 

 on exhibition, and I found 2,T52 sec- 

 tions, besides 98j^ pounds the product 

 of one colony, only a portion of which 

 was " in sight," and I thought that 

 2,500 was much "nearer the mark" of 

 being the correct amount than 5,000 

 was. 



Let me say, also, that I have since 

 gone over the exhibit with other exhibi- 

 tors, and find 2,779 sections to be " ap- 

 proximately " correct, and 2,500 sec- 

 tions would be " nearer the mark " than 

 would 5,000 pounds, especially when 

 we .take into account the fact that many 

 sections do not weigh a pound each. 



I have just weighed some sections of 

 honey that are as well filled as are the 

 New York sections, and find them to 

 weigh less than 15 ounces, which would 

 make the New York exhibit about 2,600 

 pounds of comb honey, besides the 983^ 

 pounds before referred to. With another 

 party, I have also counted the jars of 

 extracted honey, and weighed the con- 

 tents of jars of the same size that I have 

 on exhibition, and I find that 1,500 

 pounds was a generous estimate. 



It seems hardly possible that my 

 " early education in the rudiments of 



arithmetic is becoming impaired," ac- 

 cording to Mr. H., without getting off 

 2,500 in 5,000, etc. 



In regard to Mr. H.'s statement that 

 New York had " more than ten times as 



much comb honey as any other 



State," etc., I will say that if my figures, 

 2,752 pounds, are approximately cor- 

 rect, I was not far from right when I 

 said, " Had yo& said five times as much, 

 instead of ten, you would have been 

 nearer the mark," still holds true, for 

 one exhibit had about 500 pounds. 



In regard to the space occupied by 

 this " ten times as much comb honey," I 

 figured this way : Two cases 5x25 each 

 is 250 square feet ; another case 5x10 

 (only one end and one side occupied) is 

 25 feet ; total space occupied, 275 feet. 

 The cases occupied by the other States 

 and " foreign exhibit" (that means On- 

 tario) are 5x25, or 125, and if my 

 "early education in the rudiments of 

 arithmetic is" not " impaired," 275 is 

 not 33^ times 125, neither is it 2}i 

 times 125. 



I guess I'd better say " this is not a 

 joke," either. 



New York also occupies a case 5x10 

 feet with supplies, (not comb honey), 

 mostly from Mr. Falconer and Messrs. 

 Van Deusen & Sons, and it is a fine ex- 

 hibit, and a credit to Mr. Hershiser and 

 the exhibitors. Another case 5x17 con- 

 tains some very fine colonies of bees that 

 have gathered a goodly supply of surplus 

 honey, but this exhibit is practically out 

 of sight, as before mentioned. 



Allowing New York to have 2 cases 

 5x25, and the one case 5x10 showing 

 one side and one end, a case of supplies 

 5x10, and the case of bees 5x18, the 

 total being 415 square feet, she still 

 occupies less than l}i times as much 

 space as Ontario, which has a case 5x25, 

 and a space of about 3x13 feet occupied 

 by supplies, total 174 feet, and 23^ 

 times that, according to my "early edu- 

 cation in arithmetic," is 435 feet. 



Again, I don't know, but presume, 

 that the supplies exhibited in the New 

 York case, are owned by the manufac- 

 turers, but being from New York are 

 classed in her exhibit, and thus helps 

 to make the grand total claimed by 

 New York. Should Mr. Muth's exhibit 

 of hives and extractors be included in 

 the Ohio exhibit, as it should be, if New 

 York includes the supplies. New York 

 would then occupy but a little more than 

 2M the space Ohio does ; and if Mr. A. 

 I. Root's exhibit of supplies (that are 

 from Ohio, and were arranged by the 

 Ohio superintendent), that occupies 136 

 ' feet, be included, New York would oc- 



