SHIPPING PEES 
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Fifty pound packages of bees ready for shipment. 
crate. These packages keep coming in 
about three days apart until the whole 
shipment has been received. Three pounds 
of young- bees, with a queen, will soon 
have a lot of brood, and in many cases will 
be very much ahead of a colony wintered 
in the North having- more bees, but super¬ 
annuated, and ready to die in a short time. 
The inference should not be drawn that 
the author believes that the beekeepers of 
the North should allow their colonies in 
summer to run down in strength, and 
starve out, because such a procedure would 
only mean a needless destruction of good 
property that might have been saved by 
the use of sugar syrup. 
The demand for bees in package form 
has been so great that large numbers of 
northern beekeepers have been disappoint¬ 
ed in getting deliveries early enough to be 
of any value in securing a crop that sea¬ 
son. Sometimes the packages are received 
One shipment of bees made up into crates of six each, with one crate of two. Each cage has 3 pounds of 
bees, a can of syrup, half water and half sugar, and a queen caged among the bees. Experience shows this 
is better than to have her loose. 
