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THE AUSTRALIAN BEEKEEPERS’ JOURNAL. 
tunity which the Licolnshire B.K A. took 
advantage of, much to the promotion of bee- 
keeping in that district. 
But the great and outstanding event of the 
year has been the South Kensington Exhibi- 
tion. Never before has there been made so 
effective and complete a display of the pro- 
ducts and appliances connected with bee- 
keeping. To be fully realised it was neces- 
sary that it should have been witnessed. It 
was held in one of the finest buildings of the 
United Kingdom — in the large and com- 
modious conservatory adjoining the Albert 
Hall. No less tliau 290 exhibitors sent con- 
tributions to the Exhibition, and the amount 
of honey was calculated to be nearly twenty 
tons. The honey was of a superior quality, 
and it was exhibited in a most attractive 
form. There was a great rivalry among the 
competing Counties for precedence. The 
premier prize was awarded to the Lancashire 
and Cheshire B.K.A. Conferences were held 
on the occasion, when important papers were 
read by several leading beekeepers. After an 
interval of five weeks the delegates from 
Canada exhibited their honey at the Exhibi- 
tion. This exhibit consisted of about eighteen 
tons of honey ; but the flavor of the honey 
was, by the best judges, considered to be not 
comparable to that of the United Kingdom. 
The opportunity of practising fraternal cour- 
tesies and amenities towards the Canadian 
beekeepers, was not neglected ; and many 
pleasant and instructive meetings were 
arranged, in which the mutual methods of 
conducting beekeeping in Canada and Great 
Britain were earnestly discussed. The ban- 
quet, which was held in South Kensington 
Exhibition, and the Conversational Meeting 
in the evening, are amongst the most pleasant 
reminiscences of our retrospect. 
The visit of the Canadians will be long held 
in remembrance as a chief feature of the year 
1836. 
There has been a considerate development 
of the work of the B. B.K.A. in the Counties. 
Dr. Walker was specially deputed to visit 
South Wales with a bee tent. 
In Glamorganshire the cause was much 
advanced. Thence he proceeded to Cardigan- 
shire and Montgomeryshire. A lecturing tour 
was also conducted by Mr. W. B. Webster, 
who delivered lectures in the principal cities 
and villages in North Wales. Considerable 
progress has been made in Northumberland ; 
and as the Royal Agricultural Society will 
hold its next annual meeting in July at New- 
castle, it is expected that the work already 
begun there will be consolidated and com- 
pleted. The Association representing the 
counties of Lancashire and Cheshire has made 
considerable progress this year. By the 
presence of its representatives at the Liver- 
pool and South Kensington Exhibitions, and 
by their regular attendance at the quarterly 
meetings of the B. B.K.A., the northern 
counties have been brought well in touch 
with the central society. Ireland, too, has 
progressed considerably during the year. 
Although not largely represented at the 
South Kensington Exhibition it held its own, 
and secured a large share of the honors 
bestowed in proportion to the number of 
exhibits sent in for competition. 
The future of beekeeping in the United 
Kingdom materially depends on the loyalty of 
the affiliated associations and the support 
they are prepared to render to the central 
society. There is yet muc i fallow ground to 
be broken up, and the work before the parent 
society is as arduous as it is important. May 
all beekeepers give cheerful and ready assist- 
ance in promoting the progress of the work 
which yet remains to he done. 
In literature we may point to the large cir- 
culation Modern Beekeeping , issued under the 
auspices of the British Beekeepers’ Associa- 
tion, has attained. 
A new edition, bringing the work up to the 
present times, consisting of 10,000 copies, has 
been issued. We may say, without fear of 
contradiction, that the circulation of this 
work is unprecedented in the aunals of bee 
literature, being far in advance of any work 
of a similar kind. 
Mr. Cowan’s Guide Book has also met with 
much success during the year. It has now 
reached its eighth edition, and the number of 
copies issued has been 15,000. The work has 
already been translated into the Swedish and 
French languages, and arrangements are now 
being made for its being translated into 
Danish, Russian and Spanish, Mr. Cowan has 
also sent forth a pamphlet on Doubling and 
Storifying, which will prove of great service 
to beekeepers desirous of increasing their 
produce of honey. 
A cheap edition of the Rev. F. G. Jenyn s 
work on Beekeeeping for the Young has been 
published. The first volume of Mr. Cheshire’s 
work is completed, and the second is being 
continued in monthly parts. 
By the aid of the various shows, and the 
action of the Honey Companies, the sale of 
honey has been much popularised, and a great 
impulse has been given to its sale during the 
year. Already, we hear that the wholesale 
buyers are unable to purchase sufficient 
sections to meet the demands made upon them. 
This is promising news for the cultivators 
of honey, and emphasises the advice we have 
frequently given to beekeepers, namely, not to 
place before the public, immediately after the 
honey season, the whole of the produce of their 
apiaries, but to keep it in reserve till they are 
warranted in asking and obtaining a higher 
price for their honey. 
We hope the attention of beekeepers will, 
in the expectation of increasing amounts of 
honey being produced, direct their attention 
to the discovery of further utilities of honey 
in the way of beverages, comestibles, Ac. 
