Concerning the exhibit of American 

 honey, made by H. K. & F. B. Thurber 

 & Co., of ISTew York, the British Bee 

 Journal remarks follows : 



Another feature at the Kilburn Show was 

 the American honey, about 2 tons of which 

 were exhibited by Messrs. Thurber & Co., 

 of New York, whose polite agent (Mr. Hoge) 

 gave us every possible information. Some 

 of the samples were very fine, and all looked 

 beautiful ; though we must not forget that 

 taste governs the idea of value in honey, 

 and that few think alike on such matters. 

 But the greatest feature of all was the visit 

 on one day of their Royal Highnesses the 

 Prince and Princess of Wales, their three 

 children, and suite, and the deep interest 

 they took in the various exhibits, not the 

 least of which was the honey above men- 

 tioned, of which Mr. Hoge was the expo- 

 nent. The Observatory hives, with bees all 

 visible, held their attention for several min- 

 utes ; and, though we were not able to point 

 out the queen of our hive, through the 

 denseness of the mass of bees, their Royal 

 Highnesses were gratified in that respect 

 on reaching that of W. Freeman, Esq., 

 whose hive afterwards received the first 

 prize— a hive called by him the "Baroness," 

 but which, after such royal notice, we 

 should feel inclined to promote to the title 

 of "Princess." 



On another occasion the Kilburn Show 

 was visited by H. R. H. the Duke of Cam- 

 bridge and his grace the Duke of Suther- 

 land and party, and they were highly 

 pleased with a small case in which the 

 queen, surrounded by her retinue, was 

 exhibited by our junior, causing an obser- 

 vation to fall from H. R. H. on the monarchy 

 in insects. 



Caledonian Bee and Honey Show. 



The Caledonian Apiarian Society's 



exhibition was held in two large tents 



in Perth, Scotland, on July 30 to Aug. 



1, and was a decided success. The 



Dundee Advertiser thus describes the 



Show and its arrangement : 



On the five previous seasons the Society 

 has held public competitions in connection 

 with the Highland Agricultural Show. The, 

 Highland Society, with their usual appre- 

 ciation of whatever is for the good of the 

 working classes, have not been slow in rec- 

 ognizing the claims of the Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, and this year, besides giving 

 a free stance, have voted a grant of £20 and 

 a handsome silver medal. Hives and other 

 apiarian appliances are on this occasion 

 more numerous than formerly, but owing to 

 the late and wet summer there is a falling 

 off in the honey department. The leading 

 attraction to the public at this show was the 

 driving of bees from one hive to another, 

 leaving the combs, honey and brood intact. 

 It is astonishing to see with what ease and 

 safety this operation is performed, the bees 

 when well fed, not showing the least incli- 



nation to use their sting. From each hive 

 so denuded of its Inmates the queen, a drone 

 and worker were taken, put in a glass tum- 

 bler and handed around for the inspection 

 of visitors. A bar-frame hive, on the mov- 

 able-comb principle, stocked with Italian 

 bees, was brought into the tent, and the 

 internal arrangements of the hive explained. 

 The combs were also taken out one by one 

 and exhibited. In the furniture tent is a 

 large display of apiarian material, shown by 

 Mr. W. W. Young, Perth, and Mr. Steele, 

 Fowlis Easter. Mr. Steele also exhibits a 

 machine for making impress wax sheets. 

 This is an American invention, and pro- 

 duces sheets of wax impressed with hex- 

 agonal bases, on which the bees build beau- 

 tifully regular cells. 



Mr. Thomas G. Newman, editor of the 

 American Bee Journal, Chicago, gave 

 two lectures on scientific bee-keeping at the 

 tent. He referred to American apiculture, 

 describing the implements used there, and 

 the scientific management of bees for the 

 production of the most and best honey, and 

 urged upon those interested to adopt the 

 most improved methods, in order that they 

 might have good results. This gentleman 

 has been appointed by the American Bee- 

 Keepers' Association to. attend all the apia- 

 rian shows in Europe, and, comparing Brit- 

 ish and Continental methods of apiculture 

 with the American system, will report to 

 his own Society, which meets in October in 

 Chicago, of which he is President. 



The judges of the exhibits were Mr. Jas. 

 D. Anderson, Dairy ; Bailie Langland, Kil- 

 marnock, and Mr. Shearer, Yaster Gardens. 

 Mr. Newman acted as umpire. 



The Scotsman, a Glasgow paper, gives 

 the following account of it : 



Nothing more enjoyable could be con- 

 ceived than the exhibition of honey, hives 

 and bees, under the auspices of the Cale- 

 donian Apiarian and Entomological Soci- 

 ety, which is being held in a marquee on 

 the show ground. Formed about five years 

 ago, for some time after its formation the 

 Society and previously, the gentlemen to 

 whom its existence is due had an uphill 

 battle to fight. When the attention paid to 

 the subject of bee-keeping abroad is con- 

 sidered, apiarian science can only be said to 

 have been neglected to a marvellous degree 

 in this country, but the measure of attention 

 now being turned to bee-keeping promises 

 to lead to most important results. That 

 bee-keeping has received an immense im- 

 petus is evidenced by the fact that some of 

 the members of the Society who were con- 

 tent to possess 2 or 3 colonies are now keep- 

 ing 40 or 50. But in America the pursuit is 

 followed on an immense scale, there being 

 in some instances on a single farm over 

 3,000 colonies. 



Mr. Thomas G. Newman, editor of the 

 American Bee Journal, has been depu- 

 ted by the bee-masters of America to visit 

 Great Britain, and to inquire into the posi- 

 tion of apiarian science in the home coun- 

 try, with a view of laying the results of his 

 researches before the Bee Convention which 

 meets at Chicago, in October of this year. 

 He will Tisit Continental countries, and ar- 



