HEAVY HONEY YIELD EXPECTED.

Shannon News, 5 November 1929, Page 2

HEAVY HONEY YIELD EXPECTED.

A FAVOURABLE SEASON. Prospects are good for the honey yield all over the country. Last year the gialss get ahead of the clover and there was a shortage of nectar-produc-ing flowers. This year the drier weather has given the clover a chance and this has allowed the bees to go ahead. The hives have come' through the winter extremely well and the yield of honey should consequently be a heavy one.

111 mentioning these facts at Saturday’s bee-keeping demonstration in Levin, Mr *D. C. Robinson, District Instructor, isaid that the winter - before last one apiarilst in the Man'awatu fed 15 tons of sugar to his bees, but this winter he had only used a third of that quantity of food. That, of course, was a very large apiary, with 1200 colonies of bees. Questioned a's to the probable yield from it, Mr Robinson said that in a good season, fifty tons of honey, valued at £53 a. ton, might be expected.