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On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 10:55:33 -0500, [log in to unmask]
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Interesting thoughts and somewhat acurate E.T. as noted there are
> always some isssues such as a shipping problem or a poor mating week in
> some areas.
Speaking of bee shipping, Santa has dropped Frank Pellett's History of
American Beekeeping(*) under my tree this year. 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. And this was after many, many others have tried and failed to get
colonies to the west coast. Talk about audacious ingenuity! New Yorkers
are crazy, but this was one CA dude that just wouldn't give up until he
got his bees, then becoming one of the largest honey producers in the
country.
Przemek
(*)Highly recommended; 1938 prose and grammar are a bit strange to this
non-native English speaker, but the character descriptions of the giants
of American beekeeping are fascinating. I guess it's no surprising to the
experts on this forum, but it's amazing that after millennia of beekeeping
it would take a new country like US to cross the chasm and advance
beekeeping into the commercial age.
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