. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. April 8, 1915.] THE BEITISH BEE JOURNAL. 115 HONEY JUDGING COMPETITION. [9134] Having hitlierto kept out of this controversy, I decided, after reading the letter from the first prize-winner, Mr. Price (page 72), to write and say I cannot for the life of me understand how the second prize came to be awarded. I was not a competitor, and so do not write as a disappointed one. As I am ahle to throw limelight, at an opportune moment, on this second prize, I here do so. On page 45 " An Exhibitor for Thirty Years " says:—"It has co
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. April 8, 1915.] THE BEITISH BEE JOURNAL. 115 HONEY JUDGING COMPETITION. [9134] Having hitlierto kept out of this controversy, I decided, after reading the letter from the first prize-winner, Mr. Price (page 72), to write and say I cannot for the life of me understand how the second prize came to be awarded. I was not a competitor, and so do not write as a disappointed one. As I am ahle to throw limelight, at an opportune moment, on this second prize, I here do so. On page 45 " An Exhibitor for Thirty Years " says:—"It has come to my knowledge since the competition that the second prize-winner has never kept bees,, let alone exhibited. How explain away the fact of this man beating Mr. Crawshaw, who is a judge of M"ide experience? " "Well, I can go much further, and say, that while this point is quite true, I can state that six m^onths before the competi- tion he had not even the simplest rudi- mentary knowledge of bees, and I know the man (name if wanted) who gave him his first knowledge last summer. With this before us, what is the value of the competition? Mr. Price says (page 72) : — "It was a far more difficult matter than I anticipated, and, in my opinion, a far harder task than placing the awards at any show. Had it not been for my vast experience, as judge and touring expert in many counties, combined with long experi- ence as an exhibitor, I could not have attained the position (first prize-winner) that I ; I consider it a very hard matter to place Mr. Price's letter and the second prize-winner's judgment side by side, and we older bee-keepers—grey in the service—can see nothing but sheer guesswork, or an unusual fluke, in the whole business; anyway, in my estima- tion, it shows that would-be judges had better be trained under our qualified men. I, for one, should watch Avith the very greatest possible interest another attempt (at one of our coming meeti
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