458 A Modern Bee-Farm 
that the old dogma of exclusiveness has been departed from, 
to the benefit of the whole community. 
Mr. T. W. Cowan has associated with himself a prominent 
bee-master and lecturer, and one who has worked practically 
right through the appliance trade from A to Z, whose well- 
known ability has already made its influence felt in the 
conduct of the journals mentioned. 
It can only be those from within the trade circle who can 
best serve the interests of the entire bee community, where 
honest and disinterested endeavor is the main-spring of 
action. : 
Mr. Herrod has also recently taken up the reins of man- 
agement of the British Bee-keepers’ Association, with such 
evident success that it is to be wished he may long continue 
to vitalize its new-born and rapidly extending influence. 
A most Instructive Report of the doings of an Irish 
bee-keeper was given in the Britésh Bee Journal on March 
22nd, 1894. The apiarist, it will be observed, expended 
little labour over his apiary, and felt assured that his uniform 
success had been attained solely through the supertor advan- 
tages possessed by a large frame. After describing the apiary 
the correspondent proceeds—‘ the hives were all with 16-in. 
by to-in. frames; and what struck me as peculiar about 
these hives, was their size, solidity, and fine finish, * * *” 
I append an account of returns of his apiary in the Canon’s 
own words, from a letter I had received from him on the 
15th of this month. “My unvarying success through all 
seasons for the past 15 years is remarkable; as I have 
neither fed, nor stimulated, or requeened, nor done anything 
to promote greater activity among my bees, so I disclaim 
all credit for my success, except that of providing room and 
material to work upon. The season of 1892 was generally 
a bad one, yet my take of finished sections amounted to 
