. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. April 8, 1915.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 107. LECTURE BY MR. G. HAYES. Owing to the Easter holiday the next instalment of Mr. Hayes' lecture at the Conversazione is unavoidably postponed until our next issue. BERKSHIRE ANNUAL MEETING. The Annual Meeting of the Berkshire Bee-keepers' Association was held at the Abbey Hall, Reading (lent by Messrs. Sutton and Sons), on Saturday. Aid. F. B. Parfitt (the chairman) presided, and there was a better attendance of members than usual. The Committee, in their annual report, regretted to chron
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. April 8, 1915.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 107. LECTURE BY MR. G. HAYES. Owing to the Easter holiday the next instalment of Mr. Hayes' lecture at the Conversazione is unavoidably postponed until our next issue. BERKSHIRE ANNUAL MEETING. The Annual Meeting of the Berkshire Bee-keepers' Association was held at the Abbey Hall, Reading (lent by Messrs. Sutton and Sons), on Saturday. Aid. F. B. Parfitt (the chairman) presided, and there was a better attendance of members than usual. The Committee, in their annual report, regretted to chronicle a further extension of "Isle of Wight" disease. The major portions of the northern and eastern divisions of the county, which at one time supported a large number of colonies, were now almost denuded of bees. Further accounts of losses during the past winter had come to hand as the report was being prepared. As a natural consequence of this condition of affairs the financial statement showed a considerable drop in subscriptions, occasioned by the withdrawal of many members who have lost all their stock. A few members had replenished their apiaries, and whilst in some cases the returns in produce seemed to justify this course, it had yet to be recorded that in most cases the experi- ment had not met with permanent success, a recurrence of the trouble having once again swept the bees out of existence; and it seemed fairly well established that there was slight prospect of a successful issue of any venture of this sort so long as any new imported stock was taken into a district in which there remained any bees that had suffered from the malady or which had been in contact with or within flight range of any affected stock. On the other hand, it also seemed fairly well established that where a district had been completely devastated re-stocking might take place with a fair prospect of success. In the opinion of the Committee it was "highly desirable that careful
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