. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Oct. 24, 1895.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. i-2i that the latter appeals so forcibly to the eye that he may venture to predict that, in nine cases out of ten, the light amber-coloured honey take premier honours. Quite rightly, too, I thiak, because it has invariably been gathered in virgin combs just in the height of the season, and is not an admixture of good, bad, and indifferent products, as is very often the darker coloured honey. No doubt Hunts honey has " taken the cake " this year, and if it were desirable and practicable to
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Oct. 24, 1895.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. i-2i that the latter appeals so forcibly to the eye that he may venture to predict that, in nine cases out of ten, the light amber-coloured honey take premier honours. Quite rightly, too, I thiak, because it has invariably been gathered in virgin combs just in the height of the season, and is not an admixture of good, bad, and indifferent products, as is very often the darker coloured honey. No doubt Hunts honey has " taken the cake " this year, and if it were desirable and practicable to set up a standard for honey par excellence, 1 fancy some that has been gathered in Hunts and shown this year might be used for the purpose; for, personally, I never saw honey of greater all-round excellence than some shown by Hunts bee-men in 1895. A class for heather honey will enable us to com- pare such samples as Mr. Webster and Mr. Jacomb-Hood refer to in their letters with the real " native " Scotch article. Hoping Mr. Till will not have to lament of " lack of public spirit among bee-keepers, or too few prizes at future Dairy Shows.''— Arthur G. Pugh, Beeston, Notts, October 21. AN ASSOCIATION FOR HERTS. [2246.] Having seen in the last few num- bers of your valuable journal that some venturesome spirits in this county have mooted the question of re-formiog the old Herts Asso- ciation, and also asking for particulars of our local , I send you a few lines just to show what we are doing in this outside corner of the county. "When I commenced bee- keeping here in 1887 there were a few bee- keepers here (under a dozen), visited annually by the Herts expert, but the county associa- tion collapsed in the following year, and we were two years without any assistance. In September, 1889, a meeting was called here, and a president, secretary, auditor, and com- mittee elected, a regular association was formed, and about thirty members were visited in 1890
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