Here is a little piece about the Carniolan Bees (Kranjska sivka). Mojstrana is a village in the Municipality of Kranjska Gora in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia, and is no longer a part of Austria at all (as if it ever was!)
The Krainer Bees.
The Bienen Zeitung contains an article from Hern Michael Ambrozic, of Moistrana, Krain, Austria, on the Krainer bees. The writer is a very enthusiastic admirer of that variety, and gives some information concerning it in its native home. From his article we give the following extract:
The profits of the apiary in Germany and Austria, are estimated to be 45 per cent, on the capital invested. But bee-culture depends largely upon the hardiness of the race of bees, and their propensity to gather honey. Krainer bees, in these respects, must be preferred. The rough climate of our mountainous country has made our bees a hardy race, for they have been hemmed in by mountains for centuries. Our bees fly in dark and cool weather, and suffer very little from dysentery and other spring maladies. The rich mountain meadows and forests, of Krain, with their profusion of bloom, animates our bees in the spring, and we often find them flourishing in March and April, breeding early and beginning early to swarm.
My apiary is situated but 1 1/2 miles from the Mountain Triglav, which is 9000 feet above the level of the sea, and its north side is covered with eternal fields of ice, but for all that my hardy Krainer bees visit the herbs on the rocks in March and April, showing that they will succeed in any country, for they are used to rapid changes of temperature, and I can recommend them for importation to any country. Our bees are proverbially kind and gentle.
American Bee Journal, 1881
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