. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 17, 1921. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 539 Charles Bowell as its hem. assistant secre tary. Other folk besides members had coo tributed towards making the exhibition a representative one. Oaklands Institute had lent an ancient bee-smoker and a " Little zDisevses-* or ZE> -Kf€P££& N.^>-- ~~ fljtn\ sKoci Id b« \ irv. 1 urvC pf«fcrablcj — Wonder " extractor, the Apis Club had pre- sented a silver medal, and appliances had been exhibited by Messrs. E. H. Taylor, Ltd., of Welwyn, and Messrs. James Lee &a
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 17, 1921. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 539 Charles Bowell as its hem. assistant secre tary. Other folk besides members had coo tributed towards making the exhibition a representative one. Oaklands Institute had lent an ancient bee-smoker and a " Little zDisevses-* or ZE> -Kf€P££& N.^>-- ~~ fljtn\ sKoci Id b« \ irv. 1 urvC pf«fcrablcj — Wonder " extractor, the Apis Club had pre- sented a silver medal, and appliances had been exhibited by Messrs. E. H. Taylor, Ltd., of Welwyn, and Messrs. James Lee & Son, of Uxbridge. The Thrifty Bee. Both before and after my interview with the hon. secretary I had the privilege of some coaching in the art and craft of bee- keeping from Mr. C. A. Day, of Stevenage. In Mr. Day I discovered a versatile man. He has at least two hobbies besides bee keeping. One is local government ; the other is football ! If he is anything like as efficient as a member of the Stevenage Council and as chairman of the North Herts Football Association as he is as a bee-keeper, I shouldn't be surprised if he gets the Mayoralty of Stevenage, if that township ever becomes a borough. The fascinating little stories he told me of the ways of bees convinced me that the average bee knows mole about economy than the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and almost as much about a neat and natty appearance as a writer of women's fashions. " ;' My former ignorance on the subject of bee-keeping was further dispelled to some extent by a delightful lecturette given by Mr. Toms, and illustrated by lantern slides displayed by Mr. W. *D. Ridley. It was pleasant to learn from Mr. Toms that at pre- sent there is no movement, for shorter hours among the worker bees. There was one state- ment of his. however, which somewhat modi- fied the high estimate of the " personal character " of the bee which had been form- ing in my mind ever since my arriv
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