. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Bishop's Stortford and District Bee-Keepers' Association. OUR VISIT TO A PROGRESSIVE SOCIETY. The occasion of the recent Bishop's Stortford Flower Show afforded us once again the opportunity of renewing some apicultural acquaintances with that quaint old Hertfordshire town, and brought us into pleasant personal touch with local friends of the craft, both old and new, and very gratifying it was to honey exhibits at the show enabled us at once to realise the effect of this influ- ence. The classes, including one of the dozen sections and ano
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Bishop's Stortford and District Bee-Keepers' Association. OUR VISIT TO A PROGRESSIVE SOCIETY. The occasion of the recent Bishop's Stortford Flower Show afforded us once again the opportunity of renewing some apicultural acquaintances with that quaint old Hertfordshire town, and brought us into pleasant personal touch with local friends of the craft, both old and new, and very gratifying it was to honey exhibits at the show enabled us at once to realise the effect of this influ- ence. The classes, including one of the dozen sections and another for interest- ing or novel exhibits, claimed thirty-one entries, among which was that perennial source of attraction, the observatory hive with live bees. Further, at the lecture and demonstration given during the after- noon the interest evinced pointed its own moral. It may not be generally known that the Bishop's Stortford District can claim to be one of the most consistent in the county with respect to bee-keeping organisation. It was well represented in the County. BISHOP S STORTFORD ASSOCIATION S APIARY. note the optimistic view of bee-keeping prospects in the district that prevailed, especially after so serious a period of depression as that experienced during the last few years. An important influence in this connec- tion no doubt has been the resuscitation of the local bee-keepers' association, which has focussed attention upon the subject, and consolidated the existing in- terests therein, and although the re- organisation took place only a couple of seasons ago, the results of that effort, as seen in the developments so far able to be effected, clearly justifies the enthu- siasts who set their hands to the task. The duty of adjudicating upon the Association of 1878, it formed one of the local branches when that association a few years later re-arranged its constitution, and from the time the County Associa- tion collapsed in 1886. The Bishop's Stortford Branch c
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