BEE-KEEPING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2328, 22 October 1908, Page 4

BEE-KEEPING.

VISIT OF AN INSPECTOR. Mr. ißobert Gibb, Inspector of Api- ? , or the North Island, arrived in Gisborne from Auckland vesterdav oil an ofneal visit to the district. " Speaking to a “Times” reporter, -Ur. Gibb said the Government was ctoaig good work in educating beelarmors. -$-t le Waerenga State farm i 1? Northern Waikato, a good aeal of queen bee breeding had been clone, and it had been found possible to produce the best Italian queen bees, w Inch 'wore retailed to bee-farm-cis at current rates. A good deal of bee-keeping was also carried on at the Ruakura State farm, near Hamilton, and all the. lioncv produced found a ready market. Mr. Gibb added that he would remain in Gisir *2? , r a week, and would visit all the bee-farms he could during his stay. He would ho glad l to see all bee-farmers that he could not call upon, at the Gisborne Hotel during the evenings, and give any information on the industry. Ho would also be pleasecb to give apiarists any information on how to detect disease m. tho hives ..and how to cure it. ‘The Government says that tho box-hive must go,” said .the ‘lnspector, “and if the A. and P. Association will give mo permission, I will give a demonstration at the show next week on how to drive bees from a box to a frame hive. I should think this would bo a good district for bee-keeping, although sheep eat down _ the- clover rather "quickly, and dairying is more suitable than sheepfarming in a bee-roaring district.” “I will probably meet the BeeKeepers’ Association while I am here,” said Mr. Gibb. in. conclusion, “and will deliver a lecture on the natural history of the bee, their diseases', and the marketing of hone^,”