. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. [No. 127. Vol. XI.] AUGUST 1, 1883. [Published Fortnightly.] ^bttnrial, ^atxas, #r. AUGUST. The British Bee-keepers' Association has held three important shows during the present year: at Bridgewater simultaneously with the Show of the Bath and West of England, though not in con- nexion with it; in London at the Duke of Welling- ton's Riding School at Knightsbridge ; and at York in connexion with the Royal Agricultural Society of England. That much good has been done by these shows to the cause of bee-keeping is un- deniable. The Bridgewat
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. [No. 127. Vol. XI.] AUGUST 1, 1883. [Published Fortnightly.] ^bttnrial, ^atxas, #r. AUGUST. The British Bee-keepers' Association has held three important shows during the present year: at Bridgewater simultaneously with the Show of the Bath and West of England, though not in con- nexion with it; in London at the Duke of Welling- ton's Riding School at Knightsbridge ; and at York in connexion with the Royal Agricultural Society of England. That much good has been done by these shows to the cause of bee-keeping is un- deniable. The Bridgewater Show consolidated the Somersetshire County Association, which had been so long time in forming, and brought out an ex- cellent Honorary Secretary in the person of the Rev. C. G. Anderson, rector of Otterhampton, Somerset. It also administered a galvanic shock to Gloucestershire, and has elicited an offer from a gentleman residing in Cheltenham to receive the names of those who are willing to join an Associa- tion. The York Show has had a similar effect in the north of England. Many thousands of persons visited the Bee Department of the Royal Show, and have carried back to their homes a knowledge of what may be done by modern bec-keej>ing, and a desire to turn that knowledge to account. The Yorkshire Association has received the same stimulus which was given to the Somersetshire Association, whilst rumours of future Associations come to us from Northumberland, Nottingham, and even from the Isle of Man. But there is another side to the picture. Not one of these shows will bring in any addition to the funds of the Central Association. On the Bridgewater Show, which, though excellent in itself, was very scantily visited by the public, there will be a con- siderable loss. There is only one conclusion to be drawn from these shows, that if the Central Asso- ciation is to continue its work on the same scale that it has hitherto been doing, it must receive more support. It is, per
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