. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Strangeways' Printing Office, Tower Street, St. Martin's Lane, [No. 1-m. Vol. XII.] MAY 15, 1884. [Published FobtnightIiT.] (gbxtaxml, Hoticcs, tfr. I hi NTY BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATIONS. Mr. John Hewitt, of Sheffield, writing in our issue of May 1st, upon the Bligh Competition, advocates the opening >>f the compi the British Isles, ami says that in default of this, ' It is incumbent on the British Bi - b ciation to organize Associations in every part befi re they can fairly claim to m
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Strangeways' Printing Office, Tower Street, St. Martin's Lane, [No. 1-m. Vol. XII.] MAY 15, 1884. [Published FobtnightIiT.] (gbxtaxml, Hoticcs, tfr. I hi NTY BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATIONS. Mr. John Hewitt, of Sheffield, writing in our issue of May 1st, upon the Bligh Competition, advocates the opening >>f the compi the British Isles, ami says that in default of this, ' It is incumbent on the British Bi - b ciation to organize Associations in every part befi re they can fairly claim to make any distinction.' We do not agree with Mr. Bewitt as to the throwing open the Bligh Competition to bee-keepers india criminately, whether they are members of the ]',. B, K. A. or n"t. In our opinion the Bligh Com- petition should be one of the privileges attached to affiliated County Associations, which fulfil II"' con- ditions of affiliation. The central body lias hard work tu keep some of the Associations up to the mark, and others from kicking over the Some are Bluggish and torpid, and produce very little impression upon their county: others are impatient of tin' very gentle yoke which the Parent Association imposes upon them, refuse to hold their annual meetings at the required time of year, decline to send up their reports and balanci and entertain wild ideas of setting themselves up in antagonism to their parent, and drawing other i t hem into a I lave of Adullam, « hich shall lie a resort lor all such Associations as are discontented, and very probably also for all such as are in debt. The only way in which the Parent Association can hope to hold its children together is by offering privileges of affiliation, such as will make it worth the while of County Associations to comply with the conditions of affiliation in order to obtain them. Saving said this much in opposition to Mr. Hewitt's views, we arc glad to be aide to concur in the after part of his stat
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