BEEKEEPING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 234, 3 October 1934, Page 5

BEEKEEPING.

SCHOOL INSTRUCTION.

WIT. ALBERT GRAMMAR FARM

PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION,

In response to requests from pupils in the agricultural section of the school, an apicultural division has been instituted at the Mount Albert Grammar School, and the first demonstrations were made yesterday at the school farm. Bees were moved from old to new hives, and in explanation of the habits of bees, of the arrangement of the interior of the hive, and of the different sorts of bees was given. The two lecturer-demonstrators wore Messrs. Forbes Eadie and R. F. Way. The former gave the first three iiives to the school, and he explained in a practical way how to transfer bees from one hive to another. With bees flying in swarms all round him, with several on his arms and a few on his face, he hinted how harmless bees really were. This defence, though, did not deter several from stinging him. Inside the hives, he said, breeding forms were placed. These forms were composed of three sorts —comb worker, drone and honey. He explained the difference between those combs, and also between the bees themselves. Mr. Way amplified several points while Mr. Eadie was making the transfer. The party then adjourned to a classroom, where Mr. Way told the boys of the general principles of beekeeping. Mr. Eadie said afterwards that the training at the school would be most valuable, for the boys "were being taught from the beginning, and were making everything at that school that they had to use. At the end of the course they would be capable of conducting an apiary.