APPENDIX. 351 



CALEDONIAN APIARIAN SOCIETY. 



The head-quarters of this Society are at Glasgow; and, taking 

 example from the British Bee Keepers' Association, shows are held 

 and prizes given for beehives and their produce ; also living bees at 

 work in glass hives are exhibited. In addition to which, manipula- 

 tions connected with bee economy, such as transferring, handling bees 

 in bar-frame and other hives, are demonstrated to beholders. 



The exhibition of this year (1877) was held at Edinburgh, in con- 

 nection with the annual gathering of the Highland and Agricultural 

 Society, and which was very successful. 



There was a separate. charge for admission to the bee and honey 

 department, which was visited by great numbers of people. In conse- 

 quence of the poor honey harvest, but a small quantity of honey-comb 

 was sent for competition. 



With other beehive makers, we exhibited a large collection of our 

 hives, also living bees, with all the appliances needed in bee-culture. 

 The first prize was awarded us for the best and largest display. This 

 prize consists of a handsome silver cup and 40s. 



Amongst our interesting collection were a dozen or so of Italian 

 Alp queens in small boxes, each within a separate box, with a few 

 worker bees. These had been sent over expressly for this show, and 

 would therefore take no harm by being kept a few days, until pur- 

 chased by some of the enterprising Scotch bee-keepers, and sub- 

 stituted for ordinary queens in the manner explained in the body of 

 this work. 



One of the transparent single-comb hives brought from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Glasgow and exhibit ed by the indefatigable honorary secre - 

 taiy of the Society, Mr. Bennett, was thought to possess no queen, 

 as no brood was to be seen, and there were so many drones present in 

 the hive. In order to supply what we considered the deficiency, we 

 appropriated one of the. boxes containing a foreign queen, and in the 



