associated with its use will speedily vanish. 

 Mr. Steele's and Mr. Raitt's supers were on 

 the American 2-lb. system, while Mr. 

 Young's were on the 1-lb. principle with the 

 possibility of alteration in several direc- 

 tions. Mr. Young's collection of bee furni- 

 ture was a rare sight to bee-keepers. It 

 included 135 articles, from a needle for fix- 

 ing queen cells up to a bar-frame hive. Mr. 

 Steele's collection was inferior chiefly in 

 point of extent. One of his exhibits was a 

 machine for making artificial comb founda- 

 tion, along with a specimen of the work 

 produced, which was of a high order. This 

 machine, we may state, is, like many of our 

 leading inventions, the product of Ameri- 

 can ingenuity ; but the mechanical reputa- 

 tion of this country was so far sustained by 

 Mr. Thompson, of Blantyre, who, although 

 only a working joiner, has succeeded in 

 imitating the American design, and in pro- 

 ducing from his machine impress sheets 

 that took the first place. Mr. Thompson's 

 foundation, it may be observed, was rather 

 light [in color, and Mr. Raitt's rather dark ; 

 but the workmanship of the three exhibits 

 was of an exceptional kind. 



The Patterson bar-frame feeder, improved 

 by Mr. Young, is a capital thing. To both 

 these gentlemen bee-keepers are much 

 indebted, especially in a season like the 

 present, when the bad weather has made 

 feeding assume an abnormal importance. 

 The stxaw hives showed a wonderfully good 

 front. The first prize one had a flat wooden 

 top, with comb foundation guides and spaces 

 of % inch cut in the top board for supering, 

 an excellent idea, which all straw hives 

 would do well to pick up. A clasp for 

 holding frames and comb foundation while 

 fixing was exhibited by Mr. Thompson. 



The honey extractors received consider- 

 able notice. Mr. Steele's extractor is a re- 

 production of A. I. Root's, of America, 

 being his 20-inch Woodbury, with a strong 

 wire mesh of about % inch. Mr. Young's 

 was also a superior machine, somewhat 

 after the same pattern, but instead of the 

 comb being placed as it stands in the hive 

 (as in the former one) it is placed on its end 

 in a slanting position. Mr. Godfrey's col- 

 lection of honey-producing plants was 

 noticeable for its neatness, as was also Mr. 

 Young's, wrought into the form of an arch, 

 with a crown suspended from the center, 

 and a water foundation beneath. Before 

 passing out of the main tent we were in- 

 vited to taste Mrs. Patterson's sweetmeats 

 made with honey, which were excellent. 

 Mr. Wilkie, of Gourock, followed suit by 

 an invitation to taste his wine made from 

 honey, but it was found that the Perth 

 "drouths" had finished it. We were, how- 

 ever, assured by some of these gentlemen 

 that it tasted admirably. 



The manipulating tent was a scene of 

 great interest during the show. It is of 

 octagon shape, the operator standing in the 

 middle, while the public feel secure uuder 

 the protection of an intervening gauze 

 screen. Driving bees from a straw skep 

 and transferring their combs to a bar-frame 

 hive were hourly operations, and never 

 failed to strike with astonishment the spec- 

 tators, who stood aghast at seeing a human 

 being unprotected turning up a hive of bees 



and handling them as if they were blue 

 flies. The following gentlemen conducted 

 the manipulations during the different days: 

 Baillie Laughland, Kilmarnock ; Messrs. 

 Paterson, Straun; Anderson, Dairy; Hutch- 

 eson, Glasgow ; Ellis, Bridge of Earn, and 

 Wilkie, Gourock. Not a little excitement 

 was created among the onlookers when 

 Mrs. W. W. Young entered the ring alone 

 aud demonstrated to them that ladies were 

 quite capable of performing the different 

 operations connected with apiculture. 



Mr. Thomas G. Newman, editor of the 

 American Bee Journal, who is in this 

 country at present collecting information 

 relative to the state of apicultural science 

 in Britain, was present during the first three 

 days of the show. He was sent by the 

 American bee-keepers to visit various parts 

 of Europe, and will return home to lay the 

 material he may gather before the Conven- 

 tion which meets at Chicago in October. 

 Mr. Newman gave a series of lectures dur- 

 ing the different days on the American sys- 

 tem of bee-keeping, which were very inter- 

 esting, and were well received. The Soci- 

 ety presented to him a medal as a souvenir 

 of his visit to this country, and for the val- 

 uable services he has rendered to the pres- 

 ent session of the Society. 



The driving competition commenced at 11 

 o'clock yesterday, when six competitors 

 entered the list. After the straw skeps had 

 been balloted for, they were turned up one 

 after the other, and by gently tapping on 

 the sides of the hive the bees were com- 

 pelled to leave their homes with their stores 

 of brood and honey, and to take refuge in 

 an empty skep placed above. The queens 

 were captured and exhibited to a large 

 assemblage of spectators. It was ultimately 

 found that the Society's medal fell to Mr. 

 John Wilkie, Gourock, who drove his bees 

 and caged the queen in 8 minutes, being 12 

 minutes shorter time than the same opera- 

 tion was accomplished at Kilburn the other 

 week. Mr. W. Raitt, Blairgowrie, was sec- 

 ond (no prize), having taken 13 minutes. 

 The judges in this department were Messrs. 

 J. Ellice, Bridge of Earn, and Steele, Fow- 

 lis. 



Altogether the show was a great success, 

 the credit of which is due to Mr. W. W, 

 Young, whose painstaking labors during 

 the past six weeks has been very great ; he 

 deserves great praise for the manner in 

 which he conducted the affairs of the Show, 

 and the managers, assisted by the able Sec- 

 retary, Mr. Bennett, and the Acting Com- 

 mittee. 



WP Since the spring of 1876 Herr Bene 

 diet Brogilio, of Strausburg, has been prac- 

 ticing the following method with success, in 

 introducing queens : The bees of the hive 

 into which the queen is to be introduced are 

 brushed from the combs into a box, then 

 dampened with fresh water, and poured 

 down before their hive ; the queen being 

 permitted to crawl into the hive with the 

 buzzing bees. Before beginning this oper- 

 ation the queen that is with the colony at 

 the time is removed, or any queen cells 

 present are destroyed, when the bees have 

 been shaken from their combs. 



