In a message dated 12/10/03 8:09:29 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:
<< And cheaper, too. >>
Allen, you UPSET me! Yes, they are CHEAPER, but SO WHAT? Let's suppose they
are
$2.00/queen cheaper in the fall compared to spring. I requeen my 100+
colonies
in the fall with well mated queens so I get SUPER laying queens in the
following
spring; whereas if I requeened in the spring and some of those queens were so
poorly mated that I had supersedure, lost my honey crop and introduced UNKNOWN
DRONE RACIAL BLOOD. CHEAPER SHOULD NOT EVEN BE A CONSIDERATION, EVEN IF
YOU ARE REQUEENING 10,000 COLONIES,
Fall queens are just BETTER queens than spring queens, and price is
unimportant.
Having started beekeeping in1932, the heart of the GREAT DEPRESSION, WOW, do I
know about price difference! A 3 pound package of Italian bees from York Bee
was $3.15, complete A.I. Root hives were $11.00, I sold comb honey square
sections
for 25¢ and thought I was Rockefeller, working men (if they had a job) made
$5.00
a week for a 60 hour week.
CHEAPER IS NOT IMPORTANT! ONLY THE QUALITY OF THE QUEEN IS IMPORTANT!
I apologize for my madness, but I am so damn sick of Americans who treat money
as if it were GOD, There is SO MUCH more in life than "money".
Allen, many of the Bee-L participants look upon you as a "sage", a "hero", a
"21st
century C. C. Miller", and I agree that you are a highly knowledgeable bee
man.
But rather than encouraging Fall requeening because the queens are CHEAPER,
tell
them the MORE important fact that they are BETTER MATED, and hence, unlikely
to
run out of stored semen and then be superseded.
Allen - I wish you a fine HOLIDAY SEASON, and I will see you at ABF in
January.
George Imirie, an OLD retired scientist
Certified EAS Master Beekeeper
Beginning my 72nd consecutive year of beekeeping near Washington, DC
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