At first, I thought the locality a bad one for honey gathering, for it is some distance from the forest trees, but I was told the bees were gathering honey from somewhere. It is marketed both in sections and in glass jars. The honey is sold locally and to Ipswich residents. The colonies looked to be most of them strong and were busily at work. I noticed the extractor, foundation machine, bar-frames, and all the numerous sundries of the modern beekeeper. He has only been interested in the matter for the past three years, but he has built up an apiary of over sixty hives, the queens of which he is fast turning into Italians from pure blood obtained from Mr R. It is pleasant to find that he is well acquainted with all the modern discoveries that make bee-keeping a science. It is run by Mr James Jones, a young man the son of one of the oldest farmers of the plains. It is called the Mel Bonum Apiary (freely translated, Good Honey Apiary). WHEN travelling among the Redbank Plains farms-writes our Agricultural Reporter – I discovered an apiary of which I had not previously heard. I hope you enjoy reading through these old articles as much as I did. Trove is always my first choice when looking for information about people from our past.Īs usual, the pages of our old newspapers revealed a vast amount of information about Mel Bonum apiaries. Jones of Goodna, Queensland? What was the meaning of “Mel Bonum”? I was looking through them recently and rediscovered this 1905-1906 edition of H. One of my weaknesses is old beekeeping equipment catalogues.
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