§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether crofters and others interested in bee-keeping in the congested area have, through the agency of the Congested Districts Board, the advantage of any instruction as to the best methods 658 to be adopted; and, if not, will the Congested Districts Board consider the expediency of adopting the practice in force in Ireland.
*MR. A. GRAHAM MURRAYThe Congested Districts Board considered the expediency of the course indicated in the Question of the hon. Member, but such inquiries on the subject as they were able to make did not reveal much encouragement and the proposal was abandoned. But wherever any group of people in a district (or even an energetic man) show an interest in bee-keeping the Congested Districts Board supplies them with all the information they want by books, letters, etc. Instructions are sent out with every hive and the Congested Districts Board are satisfied that these are so clear that little more is needed as to method. A local man with a little enthusiasm is of much more use in a district than any lecturer, and such men the Congested Districts Board is gradually finding out.