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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



209 



NEW ZEALAND NOTES. 



By J. G. S. Small, 



Expert Appointed. 



At last the bee-keepers of New Zea- 

 land have been satisfied by the ap- ^ycfr 

 pointment of a "bee expert" by the ^' 



local government. Mr. Isaac Hopkins 

 who has been connected with the bee 



America and other leading bee coun- 

 tries have their experts and inspectors 

 and the trade attended to is ample to 

 show that New Zealand should be in 

 a position to support an expert whose 

 whole time will be given up to the in- 



The Seasons. 



The last summer and autumn have 



inausrry is me nrst expert rnat nas '. ' , ' T^t .," 



ever been appointed to rule over the ^'^ 'l^'''\u^''''\"u^'- ^^^ '^^>J'^' 

 bee industry of this fair isle, and not f^" ^"^ through the summer, with a 

 a better appointment could be made. ^^^ occasional showers, makmg ideal 

 The movement which was set on foot 



conditions for the secretion of nectar. 



by Mr. Gilbert Small was taken up ^he white clover, however was rath- 

 by Mr. Hopkins, who, in connection er scarce throughout the colony-com- 

 „r;4.t, *.!,„ f K, l„..^^^' „.- 1 ^ ing into bloom in December it lasted 



with the former gentleman wc:nt heart „„? 



until the 1st of February — but we were 

 supplied with a good, healthy growth 

 of thistles, which yielded a rather dark- 

 colored honey. 



Prices. 



For the information of American 

 readers I quote prevailing prices at this 

 time as follows: Pure extracted honey 

 in two-pound cans, 5 1-2 to 6c; dark, 

 Sc. In 60-pound cans, 4 cents. White 

 comb honey in one-pound sections, 

 $2.00 per dozen. 



Foul Brood. 



Foul brood is not so prevalent as 

 formerly. This, I think, is owing in 

 part to the mildness of the season and 

 to the greater precaution of bee-keep- 

 ers in preventing the disease. 



Marton, New Zealand. 



J. G. S. SMALL. New Zealand. 



and soul into the work with tl;e gov- 

 ernment and although two long years 

 passed before there was iiiiy appoint 



December being the last month pos- 

 ble for the holding of the National 

 convention, it is earnestly to be hoped 

 that measles may not break out in 

 Chicago, thus necessitating the selec- 

 tion of another site — probably in La- 

 brador or Alaska. 



The vice-consul for Sweden and 



Norway at Cape Haitien, Haiti, a Bee- 



Keeper subscriber, advises that the 



merit ^ n^iadeT these "two""ientfemen ^-^P?^* duty of four cents per gallon 



found that their labors had not been in ?P .honey has been abolished by the 



Haitian government. 



Mr. Hopkins is at the present time ^, „ ^^ , . . 



engaged in carrying on a lecturing tour ^ The Bee-Keeper has received a num- 

 through the colony and is receiving ^er of novel and beautiful souvenir 

 good receptions wherever he has call- P^^*^^ Sf ^.S' mailed en route by Prof, 

 ed. The many bee-keepers' asso- ^rank Bento n, now in th e far East, 

 ciations that are being formed is am- 

 ple to prove that the .people acknowl- The interests of the plain bee-keep- 

 edge that there is something in the ers are our interests. «We have no 

 bee industry, and where the system entangling alliances. 



that is proposed is carried into prac- 



tice it would be the making of the in- If you see it in the Bee-Keeper you 

 dustry. The fact that Australia, may depend upon it. 



