Honey , Hives , and Bee Appliances. 77 
Class 387. 
No. 
Specific 
gravity 
Total 
solids 
Alcohol 
Acidity 
Award 
3215 
1-0270 
per cent. 
7-94 
per cent. 
3-20 
per cent. 
•403 
1st Prize 
3216 
1-0322 
911 
2-74 
•378 
2nd Prize 
3214 
1-0304 
8-39 
2-28 
•423 
3rd Prize 
3225 
1-0479 
12-48 
1-73 
•756 
R. N. & H. C. 
3224 
1-0331 
8-82 
1-67 
•428 
Com. 
Class 388. 
3228 
1-0292 
8-56 
3-37 
•592 
1st Prize 
3235 
1 0344 
9-53 
2-97 
•680 
2nd Prize 
3238 
1-0322 
8-27 
2-11 
•718 
3rd Prize 
Wool. — Tlie exhibits as a whole were good, sound, and well 
got up. Classes 389 and 390, for Leicester and Lincoln Wool, 
were of special excellence ; the other classes were fairly 
representative. 
Honey, Hives, and Bee Appliances. — Instead of dividing the 
country into six groups with four classes in each group as in 
1904, the classes for honey were re-arranged into two sections — 
one for the northern half of Great Britain (also embracing 
Ireland and the Isle of Man) and the other for the southern 
half. Each section had four classes. The effect, of this con- 
densation was to reduce the total number of classes from 
thirty-seven to twenty-three, the total entries being 169 as 
against 244 in 1904. 
The following report on the honey classes was presented 
by the Judges (Mr. A. G. Pugh and Dr. T. S. Elliot) : — 
The classes for Northern beekeepers were but sparsely filled, and the honey 
generally in this section was only of moderate quality, though the prize exhibits 
of Light-coloured Run honey were very good. 
Competition for Southern beekeepers was very much keener, and some 
excellent comb and extracted honey was shown. So uniform were the exhibits 
in Class 409 (Light-coloured Run honey) that some difficulty was experienced 
by the Judges in making the awards. 
Granulated honey in both groups was poor in quality, and several exhibits 
were quite unfit for exhibition, being badly fermented. 
Heather honey produced only a small class, whilst only two exhibitors sent 
shallow frames, and these were not of a high standard. 
Several very good trophies were exhibited, the first prize display being very 
uniform in quality and including a number of well-tilled sections. 
The appliances, which were judged by Mr. W. B. Carr and 
Mr. W. F. Reid, were numerous and of excellent quality. The 
following is an extract from the Judges’ report : — 
In the inventions class were several novelties which, although they carried 
out the object desired by the inventors, could not be considered of practical 
utility. 
There is a considerable difference in the width of the sections imported into 
this country, and unless uniformity in this respect can be secured by our 
