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with buckwheat chaff, pressing it down 

 gently over every part of the frames. 

 The chaff should be medium line, not 

 dust, nor too coarse. A super will an- 

 swer to hold the chaff and both thick- 

 nesses of cloth laid on the frames, but 

 if the muslin is nailed on the box or 

 frame, it avoids a mussy job when ex- 

 amining a colony early in spring, when 

 the chaff must be placed on the frames 

 again. If the chaff is left uncovered 

 except with the cap, and the cap does 

 not fit too tightly, the moisture will pass 

 off better. 



Have the hives where the sun will 

 warm them enough to prevent the bees 

 dying from starvation, which is com- 

 monly called " freezing to death." 



In this latitude the entrance should be 

 left from 6 to 8 inches wide, in the cen- 

 ter of the hive, except on very cold nights 

 when it may be partially blocked with a 

 little snow, which will melt and run 

 away when the weather moderates. 



These rules are for single-walled hives. 

 Double-walled hives I have never used ; 

 the reason why, I have already given 

 several times. Bees in box-hives may 

 be wintered by this method, so far as 

 the chaff is required, if several holes are 

 bored in the top of the hive. 



Lockwood, N. Y. 



The Wew York State Honey Ex- 

 hibit at tiie World's Fair. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



BY OREL L. HEBSHISER. 



I wish to reply briefly to a few of the 

 statements made by Dr. Mason in his 

 answer to my article on page 309. 



Regarding the statement in the third 

 paragraph of Dr. M's article, to the effect 

 that the editorial was mine, I beg to 

 state that I simply furnished the facts 

 Sbud figures, to the best of my ability, 

 without use of rule or scales. I also 

 furnished the names of exhibitors, and 

 those who were represented a.nd expected 

 to send in exhibits, and I believe I made 

 the statement to the editor that all these 

 had not sent in their exhibits, but ex- 

 pected to, and for that reason were rep- 

 resented. I did not write the editorial, 

 therefore it is not mine — only the facts 

 a,nd figures of it are mine, and the re- 

 mark on page 342, that " this was not 

 a case where the crooked was made 

 straight," still has the application there 

 intended. 



Regarding the floor space of 30x50 

 feet also referred to in the third para- 

 graph of the Doctor's article, I would 



say, the honey exhibits at the World's 

 Fair are said to occupy the space in the 

 south portion of the east gallery of the 

 Agricultural Building. The exhibition 

 cases are located on this space. The 

 New York apiarian exhibit occupies the 

 amount of this space I have mentioned, 

 in the seventh paragraph on page 310. 

 The editor's statement in the second 

 paragraph of the article on page 137 

 explained the matter thoroughly, and I 

 believe no one can possibly be misled, or 

 get anything but the correct idea intend- 

 ed to be conveyed. 



In reference to the amount of comb 

 honey in the New York apiarian exhibit, 

 I would say this : 



It has been the custom in many first- 

 class expositions, to offer premiums on 

 certain amounts of comb honey. I visited 

 the Toronto Exposition last summer, 

 and there saw several exhibits said to 

 contain 500 pounds each, if my rec- 

 ollection serves me right. It was put up 

 in cases with only sections on one side 

 in view, I believe. The careful reader 

 will observe that Dr. Mason also takes 

 this view of the matter when it happens 

 to help his side of the question. In the 

 tenth paragraph of his article, on page 

 201, he says : " When I left the World's 

 Fair, Mr. H. D. Cutting had already re- 

 ceived 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-keepers, that had 

 already been shipped, making their comb 

 honey exhibit within a few hundred 

 pounds (300 perhaps) of being as large 

 as the New York comb honey exhibit." 

 Without any reflection on the Michigan 

 comb honey exhibit (which is very ele- 

 gant), I wish to observe that nearly all 

 the comb honey in it is in the regular 

 sized 12 and 24 pound cases, in which 

 the combs on one face of the cases only 

 are shown. I have not taken an inven- 

 tory, but think there may be from 200 

 to 400 pounds outside the shipping 

 cases, perhaps more. 



It would be a good exhibition of fair- 

 ness for Dr. M. to measure the New York 

 exhibit with the same yard-stick used in 

 measuring the Michigan exhibit, and not 

 insist on seeing every pound of the New 

 York comb honey exhibit placed in sight, 

 and at the same time declare the honey 

 in cases out of sight in another exhibit 

 to be on exhibition. "Consistency's a 

 jewel." 



I do not care to split hairs about this 

 matter, but when in the sixth paragraph 



