. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 48 AMERICAN BEE Mallini Queen-Eees Long Distances. Written for the American Bee Journal BY W. A. PRYAL. Although a number of queen-breeders of this country have been fairly success- ful in shipping queens to foreign lands through the mails, still, a few of these breeders, as well as many others who have not been favored with a foreign order, have been pretty unlucky in send- ing queens across the continent of America at certain times of the year. One would think that if a man who has been successful in shipping bees, say to Australia, would
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 48 AMERICAN BEE Mallini Queen-Eees Long Distances. Written for the American Bee Journal BY W. A. PRYAL. Although a number of queen-breeders of this country have been fairly success- ful in shipping queens to foreign lands through the mails, still, a few of these breeders, as well as many others who have not been favored with a foreign order, have been pretty unlucky in send- ing queens across the continent of America at certain times of the year. One would think that if a man who has been successful in shipping bees, say to Australia, would also send them every time to any part of the Pacific Coast without losing a single bee. Yet, such is not the fact. I have known of breeders who have sent their queens almost everywhere, but who cannot send them to California without fre- quently losing some. There are many causes for this, some of which I shall try to tell about in this article. What I shall write about will be based altogether on observations and experiments last summer. In carrying on these experiments, I did it not only for my own benefit, but also for the benefit of the queen-breeders of the country. It had become annoying to me to receive a queen dead, that I was hoping would come to me alive. Some- times I would have a colony to which I wanted to introduce an Italian queen, and expected one from the East in a few days. I would, consequently, let this colony remain queenless, as I hoped to give them the queen which I expected in a day or two. But how provoking it would be wheji the (|ueen, whicJi was expected with so much anticipation, came to hand as dead as dead could be. This state of affairs not only happened once, but a number of times. It was for the purpose of learning a way to get queens to this State alive every time, that I gave a good deal of attention to the subject. That I learned something of value, I am satisfied ; that my experi- ments will be of value to those breeders who ship to these di
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