HONEY CROP REPORT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 250, 10 July 1918, Page 8

HONEY CROP REPORT

! .The Director of the Horticultural Divi. f-eion-of the. Department of Agriculture ! has received from the apiary instructors I the following.report concerning the honey ■ crop prospects:— 1 _ Auckland—Honey on the open market is somewhat easier since export merchants. ; have ceased buying. Beeswax is in de'mahd from Is. 9d. lo 2s. per lb. The I weather has been very wet end cold. i Dunedin.—There is little fresh to report. A few mnnll liiies are still comjing forward. Prices nro firm. Bnlk,B.}d-. ; to IOJd.; sectioM, 10s. to 11s. per dozen; ' ; pat honey, very little , offering. Beeswax i 3 6carce, and is quoted at 2s. per ■ lb. Wellington.—As far as- can he gathered, ; matters in conncction with honey proi duction are about the same as reported | last month. All crops are extracted ami ••'sold, or held pending grauulation, to I be forwarded later to ono or other of ihe i grading stores. Large quantities are in | the 6tor«3 now waiting shipment. Sec- : tion .honey, is unprocurable. Good clean • beswax ." is from 2s. jier lb. : Honey, in bulk, is realising Is, per lb.