. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. fltttm [No. 122. Vol. XI.] MAY 15, 1883. [Published Fortnightly.] <£bit0rial, fjatms, #r. WHO 76' THE BONA FIDE COTTAGER? [Paper read by the Eev. H. R. Peel at the Quarterly Conversazione of the British Bee-keepers' Association, April 25, 1883.]' At the General Meeting of the British Bee-keepers' Association, held in this room on the loth of February, 1882, the liev. W. E. Burkitt proposed, and the JRev. J. II. Dixon seconded, ' That the term " cottager," as re- ferred to in the British and County Associations' prize sche
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. fltttm [No. 122. Vol. XI.] MAY 15, 1883. [Published Fortnightly.] <£bit0rial, fjatms, #r. WHO 76' THE BONA FIDE COTTAGER? [Paper read by the Eev. H. R. Peel at the Quarterly Conversazione of the British Bee-keepers' Association, April 25, 1883.]' At the General Meeting of the British Bee-keepers' Association, held in this room on the loth of February, 1882, the liev. W. E. Burkitt proposed, and the JRev. J. II. Dixon seconded, ' That the term " cottager," as re- ferred to in the British and County Associations' prize schedules, should receive some authorised definition at this General Meeting.' The report of the meeting (which you will find in the March number of the ninth volume of the British Bee Journal) goes on to state,' This resolution was discussed at considerable length, the bond fide cottager proving very hard to define. It was the general opinion of the meeting that each County Association should make its own defini- tion, according to circumstances, and the clause in the resolution relating to the County Associations was accord- ingly withdrawn. In respect to the Central Society, it was left for the Committee to take the matter into con- sideration, and report to the next General Meeting.' It appears, then, that the united wisdom of the British Bee-keepers' Association (comprising in its ranks repre- sentatives of all the learned professions, and embodying within itself all sorts and conditions of men) was un- able to solve the question, Who is the bond fide cottager? Mr. Burkitt's resolution was, as you have heard, dis- cussed at considerable length. With what result ? None—at least, no immediate one, except a reference to the Committee of the British—another load imposed on the back of that much-enduring beast of burden: ' 1'ar- turiunt mantes, nascetw ridicuius mus!'—'The moun- tain is in labour: what will it bring forth? A ridicu- lous little mouse ? ' My remembrance is ca
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