BEE FARMING.
ON HAURAKI PLAINS.
The extent of the bee-farming industry on the Hauraki Plains is not widely known. Besides several privately owned apiaries the Thames, Valley Honey Company has 700 hives distributed over the Plains. The company has erected at Kerepeehi an extracting depot capable of holding twenty tons of. honey. The season has been against honey producing, anS the yield’is reported to be “poor to fair,” but it is, early yet to make an announcement, as a fortnight’s' hot weather would make u very big difference. After the honey has been removed from the hives the Thames Valley Honey Company intends to shift all the bees to apiaries in North, Auckland, where they may winter on the short red ti-tree. Expensive breeding apiaries have been established on the Wade River, and special attention lias been given to improving the strain.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4531, 23 February 1923, Page 2
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142BEE FARMING. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4531, 23 February 1923, Page 2
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