Loading full honey boxes. Field's Apiaries 1967-68

Russell Field  removing honey from  hive. 

Honey removal using the brushing method 1967 - 68 season. 

Field 's  Apiaries, Foxton

1967 - 68 season at Field 's Apiaries. Bee boxes repaired then soaked in used car engine oil. Then left outside for 6 months to weather. Unacceptable practice today using old car engine oil

Honey removal using the bee brushing method. 

Infuriated the bees and this is when we got most stings! 

The 1967 - 68 season. These bee hives were harvesting Manuka honey in the Wanganui Valley. At that time it was regarded as poor quality honey and only used to supplement feed bee hives in winter, sold to bakers or used to blend with clover honey

Using a steam heated honey uncapping knife in the extracting shed at Field's Apiaries 1967-68 season. Foxton

Honey extracting shed on  the left and packing shed on the right. This was the new shed completed in time for the 1967-68 season. 

Two eight frame honey extractors in the foreground and hand held uncapping unit at rear. 

Note: there are no safety cages on the extractor fly wheels but we never had an accident. 1967-68 season at Field's Apiaries,  Foxton

(boxes) loaded onto rear of the truck by hand. Each weighs about 25kg. We had no mechanical lifters, all manual lifting.

1967-68 season, Foxton area.

(boxes) loaded onto rear of the truck by hand. Each weighs about 25kg. We had no mechanical lifters, all manual lifting. (boxes) loaded onto rear of the truck by hand. Each weighs about 25kg. We had no mechanical lifters, all manual lifting.

Field's Apiaries honey shed completed in 1967, Norbiton Road, Foxton.

Two 8 frame honey extractors and the honey then drained to a lower storage tank first passing through a mesh filter. Honey storage tins on right foreground.

"Brownie" showing a frame containing bee larvae (brood) and some honey.  Brownie took over as head beekeeper from Norman Keane who had left to work as his own beekeeper business.