348 ACCOUXT OF THE SHOW HELD AT KELSO IN 1880. 



staple and heavy fleeces seem to be leading characteristics of The Forest 

 flock. 



There was a good average display of Implements and other articles, 

 possessing all the essential merits of utility and good workmanship, 

 although there were perhaps few attractions in the way of novelty. 



The Seventh Annual Exhibition of the Caledonian Apiarian 

 Society was held within the showyard. The Society was in- 

 stituted in 1874, and has ever since been patronised by the 

 Highland Society. Its object is to foster a love of apiculture on 

 humane and profitable principles, and to stamp out the inhuman 

 system of killing the bees to get the honey. This Society is 

 beginning to show its mark in the vast improvement of bee- 

 culture which has already taken place in this country, but there 

 is still much to be done, and it is to be hoped that the public 

 will support the Society. Thousands of pounds could be made 

 by the cottagers in the clover and heather-growing districts of 

 Scotland if the bee-keepers were to take to an intelligent system 

 of bee-culture. The energetic secretary, Mr. E. J. Bennet, 

 50 Gordon Street, Glasgow, will give any information wanted, 

 and receive subscriptions, viz., 2s. 6d. per annum. A considerable 

 collection of hives in bee gear were exhibited, including some 

 improvements which have not hitherto been shown. There was 

 a good collection of both comb and run honey, all shown in a 

 very attractive style. 



The Annual Show of the Kelso Horticultueal Society was 

 also held within the showyard in a neatly laid out series of 

 marquees, and proved a great success. There were very fine col- 

 lections of pot and foliage plants and roses, the latter, as well 

 as the fruit on the tables, attracting a large amount of attention. 



It only further remains to be noticed that Messrs Stuart, 

 Mein, & Allan, nursery and seedsmen, Kelso, decorated the en- 

 closed spaces in front of the Committee Eoom, laying out the 

 ground in beautiful flower beds or miniature gardens. 



As mentioned at the beginning o'f this report, the weather was 

 unfavourable on the two first days of the show, and this accounts 

 for the unsatisfactory state of the receipts, but in all other 

 respects the exhibition was eminently successful, and well worthy 

 of the Society. 



EXPEHIMENTAL STATIONS.— EEPOET FOR 1880. 

 By Dr Andrew P. Aitken, Chemist to the Society 



experiments at harelaw and pumpherston. 



In the preceding volume of the "Transactions" (p. 283) an 

 account was given of the barley crop at the Pumpherston 

 station for 1879, and on page 285 were tabulated the weights of 

 grain and straw of the various plots. Since the publication of 

 these details the crop has been analysed, and the following 



