HONEY CROP PROSPECTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2848, 12 August 1916, Page 12

HONEY CROP PROSPECTS

The Director of tho Horticulture Division has received from the Apiary Instructors the following reports concerning tho honey crop prospects:— Auckland.—Nothing further to report since last month. The district is experiencing a wet lato winter. ■ Wellington.—The prospects for tlio coming season as far as the spring is coucermkl are good, as evinced by several varieties of plants showing signs of life fully sis weeks before their usual time. What the season will eventually be remains to bo proved. Honey prices aro-particularly good, and one line of a ton has been sold for delivery next season at Is. Gd. per 21b. in Aitken honey bags. If these prices could be secured in all parts of tho Dominion, bee-keeping would receive a fillip-never to bo forgotten. Christchurch.— I There is practically nothing further to report, prices being about the same as last month. Dunedin.—Thore is practically nothing fresh to report. All lines are in demand. Prices are firm. At a sale of dairy stock at the Taratahi on Thursday, purebred Holsteiu heifers realised as high as 200 guineas, which is a record for the district. A meeting of shearers and shed-hands is to bo held in Masterton to-day, to consider the demands which have been formulated in their behalf by tho A. and P. Workers' Conference.

A rather pertinent question was asked at the aiinual meeting of tho Cheltenham Dairy Co., namely, what hacame. of the cows condemned as bad milkers by the Cow-Testing Association? Were they sold to other dairymen? No one ventured a satisfactory reply, and the matter dropped.

We note Ttitli interest that all the best .prizes for cheese at the Palmerston Show and the test prices in the London market were obtained by those makers who use Victor Vats. These famous vats embody a new principle of middle drainage —worth while investigating. A. J. Parton, Dairyman, Carterton.—Advt