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Re: Package Beekeeping Versus Overwintering
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Trevor Weatherhead <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 3 Jan 2016 19:35:14 +1000
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>Just finished reading the chapter on the start of California beekeeping and
the exploits of one J.S.Harbison. Packed 67 colonies on a month-long boat
trip from PA via NY and Panama to San Francisco and arrived with 50 viable
>colonies all in 1857. 

In 1877 a Ligurian hive from Harbison of the Santa Clara Valley in
California was shipped to Australia.  It measured 20 inches square and 3 1/2
feet high.  When they go to Honolulu they were allowed to fly for a day
which I have previously posted about.  Apparently there had been 3 or 4
previous shipments that did not survive the trip.

Trevor Weatherhead
Australia

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