Bee and Honey Show in London. 



The British Bee-Keepers' Association 

 held its 5th great exhibition at the gar- 

 dens of the Royal Agricultural Society 

 at South Kensington, London, July 22- 

 24, 1879. These gardens are perfectly 

 magnificent and in every way a suitable 

 place to hold a Bee and Honey Show, 



The display of apiarian implements 

 was simply immense, covering the 

 whole ground from a bee veil to a comb 

 foundation mill. The display made by 

 the American Bee Journal was not 

 in any way competitive; we were 

 requested to enter many things for 

 competition, but we firmly declined. 

 We regarded our position— represent- 

 ing the bee-keepers of North America 

 — as not being in harmony with com- 

 peting for prizes. We displayed at both 

 of the London shows, simply to show 

 America's best thoughts expressed in 

 its apiarian implements, and were well 

 paid by the interest manifested in their 

 examination, and the enthusiastic re- 

 ception that we everywhere met with, 



In order that Americans may fully 

 appreciate the measure of good feeling 

 that was everywhere exhibited towards 

 their representative, we may be par- 

 doned, perhaps, for copying the follow- 

 ing notices of the press. The first is 

 from the British Bee Journal : 



Another distinguished visitor arrived on 

 the ground during the Show, not on the day 

 appointed, for, through an accident, or 

 rather a series of them, his ship had to put 

 back and he was delayed. We allude to 

 Mr. T. G. Newman, the editor of the Amer- 

 ican Bee Journal, who was received 

 with open arms by all who knew his fame, 

 and his kind, genial manner soon made him 

 a general favorite. An advanced bee-keep- 

 er, he is most uncompromising against 

 adulteration and humbug in all their bear- 

 ings, and on several occasions boldly, yet 

 with due modesty, enlarged on the improve- 

 ments which had taken place in American 

 bee-culture, and, in reference to a honey 

 market, commended to the notice of Eng- 

 lish bee-keepers the splendid methods of 

 marketing the product adopted by Messrs. 

 Thurber & Co. He was everywhere re- 

 ceived with cheers, and his observations 

 were listened to with profound attention, 

 broken only by the shouts of laughter which 

 his propensity for fun often created. 



It may here be noted that we gave 

 two lectures on " American Bee-Keep- 



ing, " in the Bee Tent at Kilburn, and 

 two more in the tent at South Kensing- 

 ton. It was these lectures that Mr. 

 Abbott referred to in the above para- 

 graph. We labored to place Americans 

 and their honey product in their true 

 light before British bee-keepers, and 

 we are fully rewarded in finding that 

 the prejudice so often exhibited hereto- 

 fore, has now no longer any existence. 

 It was unfortunate that some adulter- 

 ated American honey should have 

 found its way to Great Britain, but as 

 soon as Englishmen understand that 

 we neither approve of the transaction 

 nor apologize for it, but instead, that 

 we have waged a war against adultera- 

 tion in every form, they are not slow in 

 showing their appreciation of our 

 course. 



The London Gardeners Chronicle, an 

 ably edited and high-toned agricultural 

 paper, after giving a report of the 

 South Kensington Show and the list of 

 prizes awarded, remarks : 



Foremost in the order of arrangement is a 

 counter devoted to exhibits sent from Amer- 

 ica by the editor of the Bee Journal, of 

 Chicago, among which is a very clean sec- 

 tional super, made from one piece of wood, 

 which folds up into a neat square box ; a 

 queen cage for postal transmission, holding 

 securely, as well as the queen, a sufficient 

 supply of food and water to last during a 

 journey of a few days. There is here also 

 a one-quarter size model of the Langstroth 

 hive, which, although there are numberless 

 other patterns, is used by about half the 

 bee-keepers of the States. 



In the gardens of the Society, during all 

 day of the show, was exhibited and ex- 

 plained at intervals the manner of bee-driv- 

 ing and other manipulations, which was as 

 usual a great attraction ; and on the first 

 day a competition among experts, as to who 

 could in the quickest and neatest manner 

 drive out the bees from a straw hive, cap- 

 ture and exhibit the queen, took place. 



Mr. F. Cheshire, Mr. J. Hunter, Mr. C. N. 

 Abbott, and other well-known bee-masters, 

 varied the entertainment and instruction 

 with short lectures on several interesting 

 matters of bees and bee-culture. 



Mr. T. G. Newman, of Chicago, President 

 of the Bee Association of America, who is 

 on a tour throughout Europe to the various 

 bee shows, also gave two inspiring ad- 

 dresses, pointing out the American methods 

 of obtaining marketable honey. 



Avery interesting paper on the "Plants 

 and Flowers Most Worthy of Cultivation as 

 Honey Producers," was also read by Mr. W. 

 Ingram. A general meeting of the mem- 

 bers of the Association, presided over by 

 Bishop Tozer (in the absence of the Lady- 



