. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 154 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [April 1G, 1914. keeping, and the honey market in particular. The fostering of the export trade is one of the leading planks in the platform of this new society. Small exports to this country are no new thing, but they aim at big things in the future. Hon. R. H. Bodes, who< formally opened the Conference, gave the information that last year they sent us 135 tons, or, in Customs parlance, 302,4001bs. of honey. Many in this country will be pleased if the bulk of our imports, to the value of from £30,000 to £60
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 154 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [April 1G, 1914. keeping, and the honey market in particular. The fostering of the export trade is one of the leading planks in the platform of this new society. Small exports to this country are no new thing, but they aim at big things in the future. Hon. R. H. Bodes, who< formally opened the Conference, gave the information that last year they sent us 135 tons, or, in Customs parlance, 302,4001bs. of honey. Many in this country will be pleased if the bulk of our imports, to the value of from £30,000 to £60,000 annually, repre- senting possibly well on to o,000,0001bs. of honey, should come to us from the bee- keepers of Greater Britain rather than from foreign sources. In view of what 1 it with what two subsequent speakers said in regard to the- honey they considered good enough to substitute for the produce of our heather hills. No less an authority than the President assured us that they have already been playing this game. He says, " They had found that ti-tree honey would probably sell as well as New Zealand heather honey. It was of a similar flavour to the Scottish heather honey," and he again informs us that amongst other places this ti-tree honey went to Glasgow* I lay emphasis on this further statement. Another speaker, apparently without a blush or suffering from any qualms of con- science, declared that " So far as dark honey was concerned, he thought if it. GROUP OF JAPANESE BEE-KEEPERS. have to say later, I would add that New Zealand sends us some of our finest im- ported1 honey, which often sells at the highest price, after the home supply. Now, readers might turn with me to the dark side of the picture, and note that a honey—" a poor third or fourth grade " —is found in quantity over considerable areas of North Island, which Mr. Hopkins, in an article read at the Conference, designates " unextractable" honey. Ordinary centri
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