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Hi All
I will have an article on building bees from packages and nucs, in an upcoming ABJ. This little bit did not make it in, as I just found it today and it's too late to add it. I saw a reference to Achord beginning package shipments in 1909 but this is the first clear record of them being offered for sale:
Queens and Half Pound Packages— strain of 3-banded Italian honey gatherers now ready for you. None better, none cheaper. Untested Italian queens 50c each. Half pound bees with untested queen, $1.75. Safe arrival and satisfaction guaranteed. D. S. Jenkins writes: "I got more bees in half pound packages from you than out of one pound packages from others and your queens would be laying next morning after released and the other fellows' queens it would take some of them 4 days to commence. You treated me right." W. D. Achord, Fitzpatrick, Ala.
The Bee-keepers' Review, 1912 Volume 25
I found it interesting that the standard in the early days was one pound while today it is three. I know that people purchase equal numbers of packages and extra queens and split the 3 pound packages in half. Also, I have done the same with nucs, splitting them in half on arrival.
PLB
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