. Biggle bee book [microform] : a swarm of facts on practical bee-keeping, carefully hived. Bees. 72 : BKL BOOK they should launch out in a system of out apiaries, would make of it a monumental failure; so for this reason my advice would be to " go slow," work into it gradually and let your growth be in proportion to your success. There are some beekeepers who each year move their aj)iary from place to place, following the. A W Orr Al'IAKV bloom: but as this method i- precarious at best, 1 should not advise it- adoption excei)t in rare m>tances. and even then onl
. Biggle bee book [microform] : a swarm of facts on practical bee-keeping, carefully hived. Bees. 72 : BKL BOOK they should launch out in a system of out apiaries, would make of it a monumental failure; so for this reason my advice would be to " go slow," work into it gradually and let your growth be in proportion to your success. There are some beekeepers who each year move their aj)iary from place to place, following the. A W Orr Al'IAKV bloom: but as this method i- precarious at best, 1 should not advise it- adoption excei)t in rare m>tances. and even then only in the hands of an expert. In moving bees to and from the out yards, a great deal of caution should be exercised: for should the hive be rudely jarred and the bees escape while in transit, disastrous consecjuences wdl surely fo'iou. and possibly tin- horses may be stung to death. Ihe hives may be prepared by wire OUT MOMNG BEKS 73 screen tacked over their tops and bottoms the night before, and then in the cool of the morning the hives should be placed on a wagon having springs and the body tilled with hay or other soft and yielding material. Personally I use a frame of wood seven-eighths of an inch thick and on one side of this frame I tack wire netting like a window screen; a few nails will hold one in place on the top and the bottom of the hive body. They can be used indefinitely and are also just the thing for shipping bees away by express or freight. Above all things, have the hives so prepared and arranged on the wagon that there shall be ample ventilation while in transit, and when the out yard is reached unhitch the horses and take them some distance away until every hive is safely lifted from the wagon. It is best not to liberate the bees till toward evening In case no bees have gotten out the horses can again be harnessed to the wagon and the wagon drawn away some distance, till the screens can be taken off. the bees liberated and each hive left in
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