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of Dr. M.'s article he mentions 2,779 

 sections as being the approximate num- 

 ber of sections in sight, it looks very 

 much as though he was not seeking the 

 "approximate" number, inasmuch as 

 he failed to use even and round num- 

 bers, and had made an actual count. 

 I beg to state that there were, up to a 

 few days ago (since which time we have 

 been re-arranging exhibits, on account 

 of the receipt of many exhibits of new 

 honey), 2,892 sections in sight. This 

 discrepancy of 113 sections may have 

 occured in Dr. M.'s effort to add, or he 

 may have counted them in the dark. 



Again, in the seventh paragraph of 

 Dr. M.'s article on page 342, he refers 

 to the weight of the sections. If the 

 sections in the Ohio exhibit are regular 

 size 1-lb. sections, and weigh less than 

 15 oz. each, as he admits, and there is no 

 way of explaining such light weight, I 

 should call them very poorly filled. I 

 have just weighed some sections taken 

 from the New York exhibit, that are, as 

 nearly as I could select, as well filled as 

 the average in the Ohio exhibit, and I 

 find them to weigh from 16J^ to over 17 

 ounces. In fact, the whole crop of 

 white honey from Mr. Fred H. Fargo, 

 of Batavia, N. Y., amounting to 4,236 

 sections, weighs, on the average, accord- 

 ing to his bill, over 163^ ounces per sec- 

 tion, and I am satisfied Mr. Fargo is 

 correct in his weights. Mr. F. uses sep- 

 arators, and the sections are 1% inches 

 wide. 



Mr. Albert Snell, of Clayton, N. Y., 

 has sent in an exhibit of honey in sec- 

 tions of the same width (in the produc- 

 tion of which I think no separators 

 were used), that weigh 13 pounds per 

 12 sections. 



If a whole crop of over 4,000 pounds 

 weighs at the rate of over 163^ ounces 

 per section, on the average, it would be 

 expected that many of these sections 

 would be well and perfectly filled. Now, 

 to be fair, I think the cause of the sec- 

 tions iu the Ohio exhibit weighing so 

 light, lies in the fact that the sections 

 are narrow, and not that they are poorly 

 filled. 



If Dr. M. measures the New York ex- 

 hibit in the same manner that he does 

 the Michigan exhibit, the statement In 

 the fifth paragraph of the article on 

 page 137, to the effect that New York 

 has on exhibition more than ten times 

 as much comb honey, etc., is correct. 



It is hardly necessary to say anything 

 more concerning the space occupied by 

 the New York exhibit. I gave the cor- 

 rect dimensions of our cases in a former 

 article. I am sorry we could not use 



our space in the manner preferred by 

 Dr. M., but we did not feel called upon 

 to consult any one as to how we should 

 use it. 



I will say right here, that the New 

 York apiarian exhibit is composed of all 

 the exhibits placed in the New York 

 cases; as to whether they are purchased 

 or loaned, makes no difference. They 

 are here to represent the apicultural in- 

 terests of the Empire State. 



I also beg to state that the 6 colonies 

 of bees in the case against the wall are, 

 and have been, on exhibition ever since 

 their installation. There are curtains 

 on the front of the case to regulate the 

 light; one or more of these curtains are 

 raised during exhibition hours, or after 

 the visitors begin to arrive, and no one 

 has been refused when seeking to ex- 

 amine the bees. I have been in attend- 

 ance at the New York exhibit every day, 

 except Sundays, since June 27th, which 

 was very soon after their installation, 

 and, as far as I know, every one 

 desiring to see them has been accommo- 

 dated. The case sets against the wall, 

 and was built according to my directions. 



The fact that the 6 colonies have 

 gathered over 250 pounds of honey since 

 placed in the case, is sufficient evidence 

 that my notions about its construction 

 were not entirely faulty. If I had 

 known that Dr. M.'s heart was so set 

 upon seeing the exhibits in this case 

 from the opposite side, or outside the 

 building, I would have had a perch built 

 out there for him, where he could sit and 

 look in at the entrance where the bees fly 

 from the building. He is the only one 

 that has raised the question and made 

 the claim that the product of the length 

 and breadth of a space is not equivalent 

 to the space enclosed unless such space 

 may be seen from all sides and at all 

 times, as would be inferred from reading 

 the 3rd, 10th and 12th paragraphs of 

 his article on pages 341 and 342. I im- 

 agine from Dr. M.'s success in juggling 

 with figures and measurements, that he 

 would have no difficulty in annihilating 

 the force of gravity. He could then 

 support himself in mid-air on the out- 

 side, and gaze with much satisfaction in 

 through the apertures where the bees 

 fly from and to the building. 



Regarding the width of wood on the 

 sides of the cases mentioned near the 

 close of Dr. M.'s article, I may say that 

 the end-pieces in the cases in the New 

 York exhibit are % of an inch in thick- 

 ness. The end-pieces of the cases in 

 the Ohio exhibit are 5/16 of an inch 

 thick, I believe. The tops and bottoms 

 of the cases in the Ohio exhibit are also 



