. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. ^553. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Strangeways' Printing Office, Tower Street, St. Martin's Lane, [No. 194. Vol. XIV.] MARCH 11, 1886. [Published Weekly.] (Sfottoriri, ^Alices, #r. THE CENTRAL AND THE COUNTY ASSOCIATIONS. At the recent general meeting of the British Bee-keepers' Association Mr. Meggy, representative of the Essex Asso- ciation, proposed an addendum to the motion of Mr. Jesse Garratt to the effect that the Central Association shoidd make grants of money towards the annual exhibitions of the Count}' Ass
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. ^553. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Strangeways' Printing Office, Tower Street, St. Martin's Lane, [No. 194. Vol. XIV.] MARCH 11, 1886. [Published Weekly.] (Sfottoriri, ^Alices, #r. THE CENTRAL AND THE COUNTY ASSOCIATIONS. At the recent general meeting of the British Bee-keepers' Association Mr. Meggy, representative of the Essex Asso- ciation, proposed an addendum to the motion of Mr. Jesse Garratt to the effect that the Central Association shoidd make grants of money towards the annual exhibitions of the Count}' Associatious. The motion was not seconded, and consequently there was no discussion on it. Mr. Meggy, in the course of his remarks, said that 'many bee-keepers were of opinion that little was received in return for the affiliation fee.' To this the Chairman replied that ' this was quite a matter of opinion ; the Central Committee knew as a fact that the benefits derived from the County Associations, when they were taken advantage of, cost the Central Society something considerably in excess of the amount paid in affiliation fees.' Mr. Meggy, we consider, did not, in formulating his motion, take a sufficiently comprehensive riew of the work of the Central Society or of the relationship that subsists between it and the County Societies generally. The Central Society is the heart of the system. Its purpose is to lend efficient aid to counties where a desire has arisen to initiate Associations. Every successive year brings forth some counties where the glimmeringjflame is to be fanned, and where the weak are to be encouraged and strengthened; and it is pleasing for the Central Society to note that many of those counties where they have sent forth their lecturers, and where they have extended a supporting hand, have now strong, stalwart, self-sus- taining Associations, some of them almost equalling the British in numbers. Last year the Central penetrated into North Wales, Cumberland, a
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