. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. VOL. LX—NO. 3 HAMILTON, ILL., MARCH, 1920 MONTHLY, $ A YFAR BEES BY PARCEL POST Description of a New Gage for Sending Bees by Mail By Allen Latham IN the number of American Bee Journal for May, 1919, was pub- lished an article under this title, and in that I promised to describe my device for shiping bees by parcel post. Since the first article was writ- ten I have had much more experience with the shipping case which I have invented and used, and shall 'tell -frankly of its deficiencies as well as it excellences. In the May article I mentioned th
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. VOL. LX—NO. 3 HAMILTON, ILL., MARCH, 1920 MONTHLY, $ A YFAR BEES BY PARCEL POST Description of a New Gage for Sending Bees by Mail By Allen Latham IN the number of American Bee Journal for May, 1919, was pub- lished an article under this title, and in that I promised to describe my device for shiping bees by parcel post. Since the first article was writ- ten I have had much more experience with the shipping case which I have invented and used, and shall 'tell -frankly of its deficiencies as well as it excellences. In the May article I mentioned the splendid success I had had with this case. This success 'continued^ during the season of 1919 in every case where the trip did not consume over four or five days. But this past summer I essayed to send bees to England, also to a distant point in California. Whatever the cause, I have to admit failure in all of these long distant shipments. Short dis- ance shipments ar« one thing, while those that consume ten days or two weeks are another. A trip across this continent, thru the desert west with its arid atmosphere, and a trip across the Atlantic with it,': humid atmosphere, are again very different. The editors of this magazine have prepared cuts of my shipping case. These with my description should make very clear the principles of this case and method of carrying out these principles. As said before, every effort has been made to devise a container in which the bees would normally keep quiet and thus not use up their ener- gy in wasteful excitement. As will be seen, this is accomplished by mak- ing the case dark and furnishing the confined bees with air thru indirect passages. This case is a six-walled box, made either of thin board or some strong material like the various wall-boards now sold very commoniy. The bot- tom is double. The two bottoms are spaced apart about three-fourths of an inch. The inner bottom has a round hole some three inches in di- ameter. This hole
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