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Mr. Allen Pringle, of Selby, 

 Ont., has been appointed as Superin- 

 tendent of the Canadian honey depart- 

 ment at the World's Fair, to be held 

 here next year. The Canadian Bee 

 Journal, in its issue for October 15th, 

 says this concerning this very popular 

 appointment : 



Out of the large number of Canadian 

 bee-keepers among whom mediocrity is 

 not known, it would not have been diffi- 

 cult to select many very competent men 

 for the position ; but it was a difficult 



active in their discharge ; and it is safe 

 to say that all who may have occasion to 

 seek either his assistance or advice will 

 have both administered to them in the 

 most thorough and satisfactory manner 

 possible. 



Mr. Pringle is not only a practical 

 apiarist, but is well and favorably known 

 to the apicultural world by reason of his 

 numerous and interesting contributions 

 to the literature of bee-keeping. 



Have You Read page 621 yet ? 



Indiana State Building at the World's Columbian Exposition, in 1893. 



work indeed to select from so large a 

 number just the individual to whom 

 none of the others could raise any in- 

 superable objection on the ground either 

 of practice or precept. Upon mature 

 consideration we have reason to believe 

 that Mr. Pringle's appointment will give 

 very general satisfaction. 



Mr. Pringle has accepted the appoint- 

 ment which has been so deservedly con- 

 ferred upon him, and we are quite sure 

 that no better thing could be done. He 

 is in every respect the right man in the 

 right place ; few'are better advised than 

 he is in regard to the duties that will 

 devolve upon him ; none will be more 



Insects and Music.— The tones 

 of insects, as well as the songs of birds, 

 have been reduced to musical notation. 

 Gardiner, in his "Music of Nature," 

 tells us that the gnat hums in the note 

 A on the second space ; the death-watch 

 calls, as the owl hoots, in B flat ; the 

 buzz of honey-bees in a bee-hive is in F ; 

 that of the house-fly in the first space ; 

 the bumble-bee in an octave lower ; the 

 cock-chafer, D below the line. 



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