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ingly as he finds it succeeds. This is the wisest course to adopt in all 
cases. 
It must have been a source of extreme regret to the promoters of the 
Nottingham Meeting that the season of 1888, so far as honey production goes, 
has been one of the very worst on record ; and as the authorities of the Show 
Tery properly attach greater importance to the honey display than to the 
department devoted to bee-appliances, the failure of the honey crop was a 
great disappointment. It is, therefore, to be hoped the year 1889 will 
— as according to precedent it should— be an exceptionally good honey year. 
Bee-lceepers will then have an opportunity, of whicli they will not be slow 
to avail themselves, for showing their produce. 
Notwithstanding the adverse conditions named above, the display was 
most creditable. Of honey, as miglit be expected, the quantity was small, 
but of bee-appliances and objects of interest to bee-keepers generally, there 
has probably never been so large a collection exhibited at any previous show. 
The total number of entries nearly reached .300, and included no less than 
ten collections of hives and appliances, the whole of which were staged. All 
the leading manufacturers were represented, and every article shown was of 
the most advanced modern type. In nearly all the classes for appliances 
the competition was very keen, while many of the articles were so nearly 
equal in merit that judging was not an easy task. 
In concluding our report, we may say that taking the Bee Department 
as a whole, it was both instructive and educational, and it is certain to bear 
fruit in the interest of the classes for whom it was intended. The amount 
of shedding allowed for the Department was greater than usual, but had the 
whole of the entries been staged — as they certainly would have been, but 
for the bad season — the space apportioned would have been quite inadequate 
for the exhibits. 
Geoege Eaynok 
AVm. Broughton Cake. 
Waltek Makxin. 
XXXI. — Tleport of tlie Steward of Lairijing and Ponltri/ at 
Nottingham. By Sir John Thoeolu, Bart., Syston Park, 
Grantham. 
The period of three years for which, by favour of the Council, 
I was in 188G appointed Steward of Dairying, having now ex- 
pired, it becomes my duty to present a report on this most 
useful and instructive feature of our Annual Shows ; and in doing 
so, I wish to thank those officials of the Society whose constant 
assistance has enabled me to carry out the duties of a department 
in which I take the greatest interest, and which in the past has 
been, and will in the future still more be, of material assistance 
to the British farmer. 
The NorrmoHAM WoRiaNG Dairy. 
The Working Dairy has been so often and so fully described 
in past numbers of the Journal, that there is no necessity now to 
speak of its genei'al scheme and objects in any detail, and it 
