WHAKATANE BEEKEEPERS
LOCAL FIELD DAY Thirty-two members of the Whakatanc Beekeepers Association attended an instructive and interesting held day held during the weekend at Mr McMahon’s apiary, James Street. Mr Paterson, Government Apiary Instructor was also present.
During the afternoon club memhers were engaged upon numerous activities. One point which was particularly interesting was an exhibition hive in a glass case, enabling the queen to be studied easily. Two frames of brood taken from other hives. served to demonstrate the contrast in brood taken from a strong colony with a good queen, and one taken from a queenlcss hive
where a laying worker (capable of laying useless drone eggs only) was endeavouring to fulfill the position of a fertile queen. An adjournment to the honey house was made where an illustrated talk on the various methods of queen rearing was given. Later the frames of queen cells prepared during the talk were introduced into a hive.
The taking of the honey crop and the decapping and extraction was also demonstrated. \fternoon tea was provided by Mr and Mrs McMahon, during which Mr Hubbard, extended thanks to the host and hostess and also to Mr Paterson and the secretary. *5 *
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 37, 22 January 1946, Page 3
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