. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE BBITISH BEE JOUBNAL. Feb. 28,1922, Essay Competitions in the Bee-Keepers' Record. The subject for our next competition which is being run monthly in The Bee- kehphrs' Record, will be " Observation Hires and their Management.'" Essays must be at our office by March 20, and must be accompanied by the coupon printed in the Record. Prizes of 20s., lOb. and 5s. are offered for the first, second and third prize essays. Any sug- gestions of subjects for essays will te welcomed. A Dorset Yarn. " Thus every good his native wilds


. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE BBITISH BEE JOUBNAL. Feb. 28,1922, Essay Competitions in the Bee-Keepers' Record. The subject for our next competition which is being run monthly in The Bee- kehphrs' Record, will be " Observation Hires and their Management.'" Essays must be at our office by March 20, and must be accompanied by the coupon printed in the Record. Prizes of 20s., lOb. and 5s. are offered for the first, second and third prize essays. Any sug- gestions of subjects for essays will te welcomed. A Dorset Yarn. " Thus every good his native wilds impart, Ian-prints the patriot passion on his ; Bee-keepers in rural England, with miles of fentile fields around them, with huge trees and hedgerows of blackberries, all giving nectar to the bees, have a better apprecia- tion of their " native wilds " than those who live in urban and borough areas. This was brought home to me at the annual meeting of the Bournemouth area of bee-keepers, where all shades of political opinion, all grades of wealth, met to adopt the report of the past season's working, and map out another year of progressive work and plea- sure in bee-keeping. Where we in rural areas have .plenty of room for our stocks, in borough areas they are only in limited One member whose residence is on the side of a steep hill has his hives on little terraces one above another, all close to his dwelling- house. Here " the patriot passion "is bees. The wealthy members have more room for their stocks, but even 'these crowd up the spaces with beautiful flowers and slrrubs, and the bees are placed among them. When the hives of white paint and umber--coloured roofs look out among them it all seems part of a very pleasing whole; some among the fruit trees in the small culinary quarters. All shows the "patriot- passion" of bee-craft. Here there is -' every good " thing that is beautiful in nature—choice tirees and flower- ing shrub


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