. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. Vol. XII JUNE 1902 No. 6 HAWAII. A BEE-KEEPEK SUBSCRTBER WRITES ENTER- TAININGLY OF THE APICLLTUEAL SIT- UATION IN THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. (By H. H. Smyth.) ON the island of Oahu, the greater part of the honey is produced. There are two large corpora- tions there; one is incorporated for $65,000 paid up capital, with a bee priv- ilege of acres. They make a large amount of honey and ship mostly to London. The other is not quite so large, but they make and handle a lot. There are quite a number of persons, both white and Japanese, also in the b
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. Vol. XII JUNE 1902 No. 6 HAWAII. A BEE-KEEPEK SUBSCRTBER WRITES ENTER- TAININGLY OF THE APICLLTUEAL SIT- UATION IN THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. (By H. H. Smyth.) ON the island of Oahu, the greater part of the honey is produced. There are two large corpora- tions there; one is incorporated for $65,000 paid up capital, with a bee priv- ilege of acres. They make a large amount of honey and ship mostly to London. The other is not quite so large, but they make and handle a lot. There are quite a number of persons, both white and Japanese, also in the business. The bees are imported Ital- ians and of course, hybrids, as well. The wild bee (of which there are a large quantity on the islands) are the black or German brown bee. Our honey source, that is, the best quality (light amber,) comes from the kauvi or algeroba, which blooms more or less nine months in the year and the honey is fine flavored. There are also a great many weeds and much lantana. which gives a dark honey at certain seasons. On Hawaii, 150 miles, a little south of east, from Oahu, the principal honey district is, Kona. situated on the south- eastern or lee side of the island, shelt- ered from the strong northeast trades, but having a cool land breeze at night, while during the daytime the breeze comes from the sea. Close to the beach is the algeroba or kawi, and up at an altitude of, say, 800 to 900 feet, they have some sumac, weeds and lantana, miles of it—so thick you cannot pass through it, and cactus. The honey flow up ("mauka," as we say) or at that elevation is very un- certain and the honey is dark. In fact, I might say, the only real source of honey is kawi, there is some from cof- fee blossom, but the flow is so short that it is hardly worth mentioning. I think there are only two white men on the island who are in the business for money, Mr. Gordon Glore, at Na- poopoo and myself. I keep my bees on L frames and in 8-frame hives. The frame
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