HONEY-CROP PROSPECTS.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume VI, Issue 3, 15 March 1913, Page 348

HONEY-CROP PROSPECTS.

The Director of the Orchards, Gardens, and Apiaries Division has received the following reports on the honey-crop prospects from the Apiary Instructors :- % Auckland. The honey yield on the average is good in the Auckland District, and prices are about the same as last season. G. V. Westbrooke. Wellington.—Good average honey prospects in Taranaki; Wellington Province, fair; Hawke’s Ba, fair; Poverty Bay, medium. The quality of the produce from the above districts this season is good, and should command an advanced price.- F. A. Jacobsen. • Christchurch. The honey season is gradually coming to a close, and the main flow of nectar is over, although the bees aye still gathering a little. This should help beekeepers to get their remaining supers fairly well completed. Prices are lower than last season. I would warn all beekeepers against taking all the honey, as brood nests are found on examination in most cases to be very short of stores for winter.— L. Bowman. Dunedin. —A fortnight of good weather has resulted in a fair average honey crop in Southland. Beekeepers are not, however, extracting bare, preferring to leave an excess of stores. In North Otago a record crop of honey has been obtained. The quality of this season’s extraction is excellent, and is realizing top prices.— A. Earp.