BREEDING QUEENS.
THE WORK AT WAERENGA
New Zealanders have done well to reach so high a stage in tho houey industry , with the class of. queens they:.have at .their; ser- ■ vice. It 'is one of the. aims of the Agricultural Department to breed \a, superior class of of the, Italian variety, arid, stock the Dominion's hives witli it; The : lightning . method:,6f increasing stocks of queens is said to have lowejicd the, vigour', of. most .of. the world's Italian stocks,, and\considerablo, care and .skiil will.bo .required/to-restore\the lost constitution; ■ 'fThat\task the : , Department hat : uridprtaken, and\ Waor'enga—isolated, as it 11 - from. the. forest),haunts',o?.the wild, bee, an< ,(almost, lo'ritirely)..from..'private bee-keepersT-,< ■ ■ •is';chosen-to be the'•'qucenVrearing nursery. The work is already ; begun, and if, good .for- - \tune attends the "early ..stages there, are' expected to be perhaps a : few queens available ror distribution next season. ...Tliero. is. no foul brood round .Waerenga. Queeri-resring ' siunds like a small matter, but. it is going to make, the foundations ,of a great industry. New Zealand leads tho lvholo world in this matter. - • v.- .-. .;.. , . •■■-,,■.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 143, 11 March 1908, Page 2
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