Bee and Honey Show in England. 



As announced in last month's Bee 

 Journal, the editor started for Europe 

 on June 14th, and after a series of acci- 

 dents and delays, arrived in London 

 July 3d at 6 a. m., and repaired to the 

 great London show at Kilburn, which 

 is now the one thing talked of in Eng- 

 land. A large sum has been expended 

 in fitting up the grounds, but the al- 

 most uninterrupted rain for the first 3 

 or 4 days caused the whole place (being 

 clay soil) to be an intolerable mud-hole ; 

 the "slush" being almost knee-deep. 

 We were received with much enthusi- 

 asm by the officers and members of the 

 British Bee-Keepers' Association, and 

 at the Bee Tent, where public exhibi- 

 tions of manipulations with living bees 

 were held, we gave an address on 

 American bee-culture, and gave a de- 

 scription of our methods of manage- 

 ment. 



The judges for honey, hives and bees 

 were William Carr, of Newton Heath, 

 Manchester ; Thomas W. Cowan, Hor- 

 sham, Sussex; Bev. George Raynor. 

 Hazeleigh Bectory, Maiden, Essex. 



The most of the judging took place 

 on Monday, June 30th. The highest 

 award for the best display of pure honey 

 was given to H. K. & E. B. Thurber & 

 Co., of New York. This exhibit con- 

 sisted of honey produced by Capt. 

 Hetherington, P. H. Elwood, C. R. 

 Isham, G. M. Doolittle, Charles Par- 

 lange, J. S. Harbison, J. Oatman & 

 Sons, Hiram Roop, W. H. House, W. 

 S. Rainey, N. N. Betsinger, (a sample 

 2 years old and wonderfully well pre- 

 served), Mr. Adsit, Mr. Hoffman, and 

 four others, whose names I could not 

 find out from the marks upon the boxes. 

 The varieties were white clover, bass- 

 wood, buckwheat, white sage and gold- 

 en rod. 



Sunday and Monday were splendid 

 days, and the fair was formally opened 

 by the President, H. R. II., the Prince 

 of Wales. On that day the exhibit of 

 American honey was arranged with 

 full attention to details and resembled 



very much the show made at the Amer- 

 ican Institute Fair last year, occupying 

 the central place in the tent. 



The Prince came in more state than 

 did the Queen, and was accompanied 

 by her Royal Highness, the Princess of 

 Wales, and the Princesses Louise, Vic- 

 toria and Maud of Wales. They were 

 accompanied by Col. Arthur Ellis, and 

 were conducted by Mr. Jacob Wilson, 

 Steward General of Arrangements, the 

 Duke of Bedford, the Duke of Man- 

 chester, Col. Kingscote and Lord Bea- 

 consfield, as well as the Lord Mayor of 

 London. The whole party halted in 

 front of the American honey exhibit, 

 and his Royal Highness listened with 

 seeming interest to what Mr. Hoge had 

 to say concerning it. Both the Prince 

 and Princess asked him several ques- 

 tions. The Royal Agricultural Show- 

 yard Gazette remarks as follows con- 

 cerning the exhibit of American honey 

 and its royal admirers : 



" One must pity the poor unfortunates 

 who stand by the side of their neg- 

 lected wares, striving to induce some 

 passer-by to read a circular in which 

 the extraordinary merits of those wares 

 are fully elaborated ; but the popular 

 exhibitor is a happy fellow, and so 

 seemed the representative of those 

 great honey dealers, Messrs. H. K. & 

 E. B. Thurber & Co., of New York. 

 The exhibit of these gentlemen appeals 

 to the curiosity of all visitors, and con- 

 sists of an immense square made up of 

 boxes of honey ; this honey looks crisp 

 and fresh ; above this square are piled, 

 cakes of square golden beeswax. Last 

 Monday the Prince and Princess of 

 Wales and three royal children alighted 

 at the tent of the British Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, and halted with the Lord 

 Mayor and others in front of this Amer- 

 ican display. In reply to a question 

 put regarding the extent of the honey 

 industry in the United States, the gen- 

 tleman in charge said that the United 

 States is credited with 35,000 people 

 who follow bee-keeping ; these apiar- 

 ists own on an average 20 colonies of 

 bees each or 700,000 in all, which it is 

 estimated will produce 50 lbs. of sur- 

 plus honey per annum, the total of 

 which is 35,000,000 lbs." 



A few other exhibits intended for 

 show were also sent over, but they came 

 on the Macedonia, and did not reach 



