. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Aug. 3 1899.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 303 have been obliged to appeal to our worthy president, Mr. E. Graham, for a little informa- tion to 'go along with the pictures in print.' Mr. Graham is the oldest member in our association, and has been a bee-keeper for over fifty years, sometimes keeping as many as thirty hives at a time. In all these years, too, he has only been troubled with foul-brood in three hives. Our president took first prize for heather honey at the famous Crystal Palace show in 1874. He was well acquainted with the late
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Aug. 3 1899.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 303 have been obliged to appeal to our worthy president, Mr. E. Graham, for a little informa- tion to 'go along with the pictures in print.' Mr. Graham is the oldest member in our association, and has been a bee-keeper for over fifty years, sometimes keeping as many as thirty hives at a time. In all these years, too, he has only been troubled with foul-brood in three hives. Our president took first prize for heather honey at the famous Crystal Palace show in 1874. He was well acquainted with the late Mr. Abbott, who founded the British hives yielding that year 120 lb. of comb- honey. " All honey raised by members of the assc- ciation is disposed of locally, clover-honey selling at Is., and heather at about Is. 2d. per lb. "Mr. A. McNulIey is our secretary, and faithfully and well fills that office, and is most obliging to the members of the association, and others who require information on bee- culture. " As already said, I am only a recruit in. (A Snap-shot. 1898) r'^^j Bes Journal, and relates a proverb told by him when in Glasgow at the Honey and Flower Show in 1876, viz , ' Bees have stings, and know how to use them ; men have stings, and know how to use them ; but the sting of man is far more full of venom than that of the bee.' "The photo entitled 'Stung 1' shows Mr. Graham acting the Good Samaritan by ex- tracting a sting from the face of a comrade who has been less fortunate than himself. " The best honey season Mr. Graham has ever experienced was 1874, one of his the ranks, but I take much pleasure in attend- ing to and looking after the bees and find the work very pleasant indeed. " Last of all, I would strongly recommend the Sergeant-Instructors of Volunteers, who I know are located in the many small towns and villages throughout England and Scotland to invest in a hive of bees, and they will find a profitable pastime for the many h
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