DIGGING FOR VICTORY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 74, 6 July 1942, Page 2

DIGGING FOR VICTORY

(By a Correspondent) In a recent- issue of the Beacon, under the above heading, there appeared a recommendation for householders to grow more vegetables and other food requirements, in order to provide for a lean time, and mention was made of a ease where- two hives of bees produced 14()]bs honey. At Waimana Junction, Avhere bees collect honey from clover on cow-to-the-acre dairy farms, an apiary of 10 hives run as a side line, produced last summer 18001bs of extracted honey and 311bs of wax. These bees also drew out 185 sheets of foundation to augment the 200 drawn combs'which they started the season Avith. The best hive gaA-e a surplus of 2<l2!bs and also put up a record of being the best home defender in the yard. This apiary of bees is now hibernating AA'ith more than 401bs of Avinter stores and gives promise of being able- and Avilling to answer the patriotic appeal of the Beacon as soon as the first clover bloom shows in the spring. Owing to the scarcity of honey in other parts of New Zealand the crop Avas sold before being ready for shipping. During the 1914-18 Avar European countries supplied their soldiers Avith a tin of honey to carr.y in their outfit as a stiinu-* 'ant, but to-day other stimulants are being experimented Avith.