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consumers. This is an important matter in Australasia 

 where the average amount of honey consumed per capita 

 is so small. 



Eegarding the matter of prizes, the amounts offered 

 are not sufficient to tempt a provincial apiarist to exhibit 

 outside of his own particular district, and in many cases 



Fig. 72. 01)servation Hive. 



the apicultural exhil)its are judged by the cheese or butter 

 expert. This is, to say the least of it, very unsatisfactory; 

 the whole system of judging at Agricultural Shows should 

 l,)e revised. An official list of com]ietent judges should be 

 compiled and circulated throughout the various States. 

 Show Committees would then have something reliable 

 before them when selecting the adjudicators for their 

 annual fixtures. A scale of points should also ))e adopted, 

 and in this manner exhibitors woukl lie educated, along 



