. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. [No. 105. Vol. IX.] JANUARY, 1882. [Published Monthly.] (SfaxtomI, ftoiias, fe. JANUARY. A Happy New Year ! to all our friends, and that it may be a prosperous one generally is our most earnest greeting at the beginning of 1882. Christmas has passed and, we trust, has been merrily spent, and thankfully. The past year, though all that could be desired in the South of Britain, has not been so kind in the North and in Ireland, where wet and cold have prevailed; nevertheless, there has been no di- minution in the ardour of bee-keepers, wh
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. [No. 105. Vol. IX.] JANUARY, 1882. [Published Monthly.] (SfaxtomI, ftoiias, fe. JANUARY. A Happy New Year ! to all our friends, and that it may be a prosperous one generally is our most earnest greeting at the beginning of 1882. Christmas has passed and, we trust, has been merrily spent, and thankfully. The past year, though all that could be desired in the South of Britain, has not been so kind in the North and in Ireland, where wet and cold have prevailed; nevertheless, there has been no di- minution in the ardour of bee-keepers, who continue to press onward against all difficulties to the establishment of bee culture as a national industry. How many Associations have been formed and are forming in the United Kingdom we are almost afraid to say, lest we should omit any and offend, but their name is Legion, and the work they are doing invaluable. A year ago we were enabled to congratulate ' the craft' on the establishment of a central Asso- ciation in Ireland consequent on the ' raid' made by the British in that gloriously beautiful land, and now we are in a position to state that a similar Association is forming in Wales under auspices (reported in another column) that will ensure it a firm base for operations in that too long reticent Principality. The efforts of the British Bee-keepers' Asso- ciation, worthy of all praise, as they have ever been under the able guidance of the Rev. Mr. Peel, promise a vast increase of usefulness through a channel that, until of late, has existed only in name in their pro- spectus. For a long time there has been a library in connexion with the Association, with Mr. Cheshire as librarian, but its books, with one or two exceptions, have remained on the .shelves of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Jermyn Street, London, who kindly placed them at the disposal of the Association ; but now they are likely, under the care of Mr. Henderson, of Ealing, to fulf
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