February 19, 1 S8o ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE. AND COTTAGE GARDENER 
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3rd, The objects for which it is established arc— 
a, To promote the mutual interest and protection of its members. 
b, To obtain the best market price for its members’ produce. 
c, To provide a common registered label and trade mark for the sole 
use otits members on the honey produced by them. 
d, To provide against and prevent any member mixing h's produce 
with any foreign substancq or putting the labels of the Union on 
any honey, imitations, or mixtures not gathered by bis or her own 
bees. 
e, To organise fairs or other kinds of markets at convenient cent e3 
for the sale of members’ produce. 
f, To do all such oth- r things as may seem necessary for the benefit 
or protection of its members. 
« 7 , To promote, assist, or do anything which is calculated to improve 
the art of apiculture. 
h, To make or provide (if thought advisable) honey bottles, sections, 
crates, or any other appliance not being bee hives or parts 
thereof, that may be neoessary to enable its members to put their 
produce on the market in merchantable shape. 
t, To grant licences, authority, or power to o hers. not being the 
producers, to bottle any member’s honey and affix the Union’s 
labels thereon, and sell the same on comnrssion or otherwise, or 
to appoint an officer if found necessary to do the same. 
4th, The annual subscription to members shall be 2s. 61. per annum, due 
1st of January in each year, and payable within the month, and Is. entrance 
fee. All members who have not paid their annual subscriptions on the first 
day of February in each year, or applied for an extension of time, shall be 
suspended from all rghts or benefits of the Union until such subscription 
is paid. 
5th, Each applicant for membership shall be a keeper and o-vner of bees, 
and shall conform to all the rules an i regulat'ons of the Union, and shall 
not mix other honey with or adulterate his or her honey with any foreign 
substance, or in any way palm off other honey as the produce of his or her 
bees. 
Gth, Each application shall be attested by one or two references the 
effect that the applicant is a keiper and owner of bees ; that he or she is an 
honest and respectable person, and in their opinion will not be guilty of 
fraud in any way whatever. 
7th, That in case any member shall cease to keep and own bees for the 
period of one year, he or she shall be suspended until such bee-ke ping is 
resumed; and should any memb-r be guilty of fraud or fraudulent prac¬ 
tices in any form, he or she shall be expelled from the Union, and shall 
never be eligible again for re-election. 
8th, The Union shall comprisi an Executive Council. Districts, and Local 
Lodges. The Council shall consist of all the District Presidents, who shall 
be elected in the annual assembly at Easter by all the members belonging 
to their respective districts. 
9th, The districts shall be formed by dividing the British Isles into 
twenty-one parts (see schedule). The whole members of such respective dis¬ 
tricts shall assemble yearly at or before Easter, in some town or place within 
the district, and elect a President, Vice-President, Secretary, and five Com¬ 
mittee members, which shall be the District Executive, thie; to form a 
quorum, to assist the Council in managing the affairs of the district. At 
this assembly all members belonging to the district may vote, either by 
person or proxy, or join in any discussion, and any other member of the 
Union may be present and speak, but without the right to vote. The 
President of the district shall be a member of Council, and should his seat 
become vacant it shall be filled by the Vice-President. 
10th, All members in each respective district may meet quarterly for 
election to vacant offices and other business, reading of papers, discussing 
of subjects, passing votes of c nsure, approval, or otherwise on the Council, 
or recommending any subject for their consideration, and any other resolu¬ 
tion thought advisable. 
11th, The Council shall elect a President, Vice-President, Treasurer, 
and Secretary, from amongst their number, and may appoint any person 
to any post or service of the Union that may be found necessary. 
12th, The Council shall meet at least once every three months, five to 
form a quorum, for the transaction of business, and all its decrees or reso¬ 
lutions, &c., shall be unquestionable by any member, lodge, or district, and 
can only be revoked by itself or a fresh elected Council. 
13th, The Council shall provide, at a price to be determined by them, a 
common registered label, and all other printed matter for the common use 
of the members of the Union. 
14th, All rules, regulations, and amendment of constitution of this Union, 
or alteration thereof, shall be made by the Council, and all cases or question 
of dispute decided by them shall be final. 
loth, Any four or more members in any locality may form themselves 
into a Local Lodge, three to form a quorum, which shall manage their local 
afEairs, assist the District Committee in organising honey fairs, <fcc. Any 
Lodge within four miles of a district boundary may choose which of the 
two districts they shall form a part, and any member may please himself 
whether he joins a Lodge or not, and if he does, the Lodge he or she will 
join. 
10th, Every Lodge shall meet at least once each month, appoint a 
Secretary, who shall bring before the Lodge any communication f, om the 
district or head Secretaries, which shall discuss the question relating thereto, 
and pass any resolutions thought necessary, which ci py of said resolutions 
shall be immediately fo: warded to the respective Secretary. 
17th, The Lodges shall transact any local busim ss, reading of papers, 
discussing of apicultural topics, or questions of advice to which answers are 
required by those able to answer; to make arrangements for clubbing in 
taking bees to the moors or other ptsture ground, or shelter or conveni¬ 
ence, &c., thereat, arrangement of subjects, ic., to be brought under the 
notice of the quarterly or annual assembly of the district, and do anything 
calculated to be of benefit to the Lodge, and not to the hurt or injury 
of the rest of the members of the Union, or contrary to the rules and 
constitution. 
18.h, Each Lodge shall determine the amount of contribution payable to 
its funds by its respective members. 
19th, All members of the Union shall be elig.ble for any office, 
and all officers or representatives shall retire yearly, and be eligible for 
re-election. 
20th, All rules, resolutions, or other vote either of Lodge or district, 
except election of officers or representatives, ehall be subject to the con¬ 
firmation of the Council. The election of all new members, after being 
approved or not by the District Committee or Lodges, shall also be confirmed 
by the Council. 
21st, All entrance fees, annual subscriptions, revenue from tables, or 
other source, shall belong to and be handed over to the Council, except 
Lodge or district contributions, or any funds that may be subscribed for 
local purposes, in which case that body, whether Lodge or district, to which 
it belongs, shall have the charge or management of it or any property 
purchased with the same. 
22nd, All members shall affix all or any label of the Union in the 
manner required on all honey sold, exposed, or offered for sale to any dealer, 
and at any fair or othor market, except only such honey which may be sold 
or given direct to a consumer or agent of a consumer. 
23rd, All Council members shall be paid their travelling expenses while 
attending to the business of the Union out of the general funds, but other 
expenses or remuneration if any shall be paid by the district they represent, 
to be voted by the district annual assembly. Nothing in these articles shall 
prevent the district annual assemblies from voting a remuneration or pay¬ 
ment to any other officer or representative. 
24tb, As soon as organised this Union shall be registered, enrolled, or 
incorporated under the Friendly Societies or other Acts of Parliament. 
SCHEDULE REFERRED TO (ENGLAND). 
District. 
-No. 1.—Cumberland, Westmoreland, 
Northumberland, Durham, 
North Riding of Yorkshire, 
Lancashire (north of Morecombe 
Day), and Isle of Man. 
No. 2.-Lancashire, East and West Rid¬ 
ings of Yorkshire. 
No. 3.-Cheshire Shropshire, Stafford¬ 
shire, and Derbyshire. 
No. 4.—Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, 
Leicester, and Rutland. 
No. 5.—Herefordshire. Worcester, War¬ 
wick, and Gloucester. 
District. 
No. 6.—Oxfordshire, Northampton, Hunt¬ 
ingdonshire, Buckinghamshire, 
and Bedfordshire. 
No. 7,—Cambridge, Norfolk, and Suffolk. 
No. 8.—Essex, Hertfordshire, and Middle¬ 
sex. 
No. 9.-Kent, Sussex, and Surrey. 
No. 1 .-Berk-hire, Wiltshire, and Hamp¬ 
shire. 
No. 11.—Somerset and Dorset. 
No. 12.—Devon and Cornwall. 
wales. 
No. 13.—Cardigan, Radnor, Brecknock, 
Monmouth, Glamorgan, Car¬ 
marthen, and Rembroke. 
No. 14.—Montgomery, Merioneth, Carnar¬ 
von, Anglesea, Denbigh, and 
Flint. 
SCOTLAND. 
No. 13.—Aberdeen, Banff, Elgin, Nairn, 
and all islands and counties 
north thereof. 
No. 18.—Argyle, Berth, Forfar, Kincardine, 
Fife, Stirling, Dumbarton, and 
Kinross. 
No. 17.—Haddington. Berwick, Roxburgh, 
Selkirk, Peebles, Linlithgow, 
and Edinburgh. 
No. 18.—Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Wig¬ 
town, and Ayr, south of River 
Doon. 
No. 19.—Lanark, Ayr (north of Doon), Ren¬ 
frew, and Bute. 
IRELAND. 
No. 21.—The railway from Dublin via, Atlilone to Galway shall divide the Island into 
two parts, making North Ireland and 
No. 21.—South Ireland. 
THE BRITISH BEE-KEEPERS’ ASSOCIATION. 
I do not know whether “ A Lanarkshire Bee-keeper” wishes for in¬ 
formation, but I am quite sure that he stands sorely in need of it. His 
ignorance of the matters on which be writes is most palpable. May I 
infirm him, then, that the British Bee Journal, of which I am the proprietor 
and editor, is entirely independent both of the British Bee-keepers’ Asso¬ 
ciation and of the British Honey Company, which are also perfectly in¬ 
dependent of each other ? If the Association were dissolved, and the 
Honey Company were to come to nothing, the Bee Journal would hold 
on its course without interruption so long as 1 have any control over it. 
The Bee Journal has no trade interests whatever, The idea of a conspi¬ 
racy between the B.B.K.A., the British Honey Company and the Bee 
Journal to introduce American honey into England by means of a 
staudard section is so utterly absurd as to need no refutation. Far from 
endeavouring to “ force ” a standard section on bee-keepers in general, 
the Committee of the B.B.K.A only took the matter in hand in accord¬ 
ance with the expressed wish of a great number of bee-keepers. I am 
not likely to ask for a vote of confidence from “ A Lanarkshire Bee¬ 
keeper ” or bis friends, but I am not conscious of having done anything 
to deserve any loss of the faith or the confidence of British bee-keepers 
generally. I was not the originator of the Honey Company, as “ A 
Lanarkshire Bee-keeper” asserts ; nor was I, when the idea was first 
broached, at all sanguine as to its success. I accepted the post of chair¬ 
man of the Board, not from any self-interested motives, nor from any 
expectation of its being a profitable speculat'on, but with the view of 
aiding a movement which I thought would be for the benefit of the 
British bee-keeper, though it seems to have proved a thorn in the flesh to 
the “ Lanarkshire Bee-keeper.”— Herbert R. Peel. 
Before “A Lanarkshire Bee-keeper” again assails the British Bee¬ 
keepers’ Assoc : ation I strongly advise him to acquire accuracy of thought 
as well as accuracy of expression. In your issue of February 5th I drew 
attention to the fact that “ Duiing the Health Exhibition honey in large 
quantities was always on sale at the department established there at great 
co-tby the British Bee-keepers’ Association.” In the remarks made by 
“ A Lanarkshire Bee-keeper ” he says that “A. B. M.” “ tells us of the 
£20 and £30 worth being sold at the Health Exhibition brought there at 
great cost by the British Bee-keepers’ Association.” I told your readers 
nothing of the kind. My asseition was that the department was esta 
