. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. [No. 124. Vol. XL] JUNE 15, 1883. [Published Fortnightly.] Offtitnriid, ftottas, #r. THE COMING SHOW AT KNIGHTSBRIDGE. Professor Cook, in the new edition of his Manual, says, ' Our English friends hare demonstrated that large honey exhibitions are a most powerful aid in developing the honey market.' We are pleased to receive this appreciative testimony to the value of the shows which have been inaugurated in this country at the instance of the British Bee-keepers' Association from so worthy and so independent an authority. We are now fast
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. [No. 124. Vol. XL] JUNE 15, 1883. [Published Fortnightly.] Offtitnriid, ftottas, #r. THE COMING SHOW AT KNIGHTSBRIDGE. Professor Cook, in the new edition of his Manual, says, ' Our English friends hare demonstrated that large honey exhibitions are a most powerful aid in developing the honey market.' We are pleased to receive this appreciative testimony to the value of the shows which have been inaugurated in this country at the instance of the British Bee-keepers' Association from so worthy and so independent an authority. We are now fast approaching the ninth of these exhibitions, and it is of the utmost import- ance that the prestige of the past should be main- tained in that about to be held, and that the cause hee-keepers have at heart may be greatly promoted by the coming exhibition at Knightsbridge. The time for the show is earlier than in former years; but it has been so fixed that an opportunity might be afforded to those who may be in town at that time of being able to inspect the results of bee-keeping in the display of bees, hives, and honey. Though at one time the question arose in the minds of many whether the time fixed upon would not be too early for the display of honey; yet, the season being propitious and reassuring, every- thing appears to be tending â in the direction of a most successful result. That this should be at- tained is the desire of all bee-keepers ; and in order that it should prove so we feel justified in looking with hopefulness to secure the aid of all our apicul- tural friends ; and we feel assured that if we have their approval and their cordial assistance, the object of the Exhibition will be gained, and the result will be such as will cheer the hearts of the Committee of the B. B. K. A. who have worked so laboriously and so self-denyingly in furtherance of the cause. One great object the Committee have desired is that there should be a substantial display of honey. Might w
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