BEEKEEPING

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3191, 15 September 1917, Page 10

BEEKEEPING

"Arrangements have now been completed for the registration of all apiaries, thus compelling the box-hive man, who still lingers in out-of-the-way places, to disclose his whereaboute,\ and to either bring his operations into accord with the law or discontinue them altogether," says the Secretary of Agriculture in his annual report. "A definite beginning has been made .with experimental work for the benefit of beekeepers, and it is proposed to develop this as .opportunity offers. , The work of inspection and instruction, on which four apiary instructors have been engaged for several years, is now yielding good results, and a hopeful tendency towards co-ordinated effort to improve the position of the bee industry is developing amongst those engaged in it. The National Beekeepers Association and the New Zealand Cooperative Honey-producers' , Association are both doing good g work, and their operations will materially assist the Department's efforts to place beekeeping on a thoroughly sound basis. According to present indications the local markets will ere long be fully supplied with honey at prices fair to both producer and consumer, and the export trade will soon attain considerable dimensions.