HONEY CROP PROSPECTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2692, 11 February 1916, Page 8

HONEY CROP PROSPECTS

J OFFICIAL REPORTS. : The Director of,the Horticulture Divii sioa has received from the Apiary In- : structors the following reports concerning honey crop prospects:— Auckland.—l)ry weather continues,' but honey is coming ill freely. There sre prospects of fair average yields and ; ;onsiderable quantity of -thicK honey this year. I Wellington —The' weather has„;m- ---• proved consir.viY.bly, so prospects are i irighter--for-tie beekeeper than'form- ; srly. A fair return is predicted from the apiaries in the Wairarapa, Mana-'- ! -wa.tu,/and Ti-.ranaki districts,-out : not ! so good a return from Hawke s bay or . -The-q-aality '.upy'to- tre pre- ■ Kent is good, 'and .tie market conditions ; ere much better than in former years. . Clristchurch. —A slight honey -low : !. followed the recent rain, adding a littlo • rto depleted stores. Many beekeepers ?have already lost a number of stocks ' from starvation. It las been a most • trying season in Canterbury for' bee- > j jreepers, and there :will; be, very-'.littlo. ; i acney. to offer. Owing tcijthe poor -sea- . | Wn, merchants are goffering 3d.'-and'sifl. : • .for. choice clover'loney.,! I Duriedin. —I ' North Otago J : point to « disastrous, -season;-'; "Many- • losses lave been experienced;* and ft-ed- '. ,ing las beencontinued.. 'It .is' now ,too .

late for a second growth of clover, as light frosts will undoubtedly follow the rains. From Duuedin South extracting is ill progress, and the returns are exceeding the sanguine expectations of the beekeepers. Tho hix'inant growth c of clover, combined with a norm spc-ll j of weather, which sot in eariy mJa Hilary, has brought about an abnormal honey flow. good crop's assured.