. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Strangeways' Phixtixg Office, Tower Street, St. Martin's Lane, [No. 137. Vol. XII.] JANUARY 1, 1884. [Published Fortnightly.] editorial, Notices, #c. JANUARY. TnE past year has been a very anxious and arduous one for the British Bee-keepers' Association, but through the exertions and liberality of a small section of its members (we wish wc could say by the united effort of the bee-keepers of Great Britain) the storm lias been weathered, and the bark of t he Association is now in smoother
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Strangeways' Phixtixg Office, Tower Street, St. Martin's Lane, [No. 137. Vol. XII.] JANUARY 1, 1884. [Published Fortnightly.] editorial, Notices, #c. JANUARY. TnE past year has been a very anxious and arduous one for the British Bee-keepers' Association, but through the exertions and liberality of a small section of its members (we wish wc could say by the united effort of the bee-keepers of Great Britain) the storm lias been weathered, and the bark of t he Association is now in smoother water. It is only right that the generosity of the President and Committee in advancing the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds (for which they have de- clined to accept any interest) should be publicly acknowledged, as by this means the Association has been saved from collapse and disintegration. Recognising the fact that its main object is to instruct the agricultural and other labouring classes of Great Britain in the most humane and profitable methods of bee-keeping, the Association baa round that the simplest and most effective method of accomplishing this object is the establishment of County Associations affiliated with the Central in every County of England and Wales in which Bee- keeping is possible, and where the inhabitants take sufficient interest in this pursuit. It was never supposed when these County Associations were first started that ladies and gentlemen who had joined the Association from philanthropic motives would refuse to continue their very small sub- scription of five shillings to the Parent Association, because an Association had been started in their own county, and they had felt themselves called to belong to it. Such is, however, the experience of those whose uphill task it has been to manage the affairs of the British Bee-keepers' Association during the last few years. If the Association had died, it would not have died a natural death, but have be
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