. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 92 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Feb. 4, 19C4. wide, and long enough to reach across the hive front, bent in and tacked well. Be sure on that point. Next I set the hives on the two pieces of 2x4 and nailed them at three of the corners with s-penny wire nails, leaving the nails up about i,, inch, I could not get at the fourth corner to nail that. Then I put two other pieces of 3x4 across the hives, nail- ing them at the end and toe-nailing them to the caps. In that manner I placed 84 colonies in one end of a box-car, putting L'x4's on the top of the last a
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 92 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Feb. 4, 19C4. wide, and long enough to reach across the hive front, bent in and tacked well. Be sure on that point. Next I set the hives on the two pieces of 2x4 and nailed them at three of the corners with s-penny wire nails, leaving the nails up about i,, inch, I could not get at the fourth corner to nail that. Then I put two other pieces of 3x4 across the hives, nail- ing them at the end and toe-nailing them to the caps. In that manner I placed 84 colonies in one end of a box-car, putting L'x4's on the top of the last and then piling empty supers, etc., on top of the whole of them. I then took some 2xi5 and put them across the car against the ends of the whole lot, spiking them solid, three of them straight and one across, making the whole solid. I will say right here, that they must be made so they cannot move, or else all is lost. In the other end of the car I had household goods, and nailed boards across to keep them from moving. Well, those boards lasted just until the train, or rather the engine, ran off the track, then the engineer stopped the train with the air-brakes, and those boards broke like matches. Another thing : Put the bees in the front end of the ear, if you don't have more than '., carload, as the sudden stops throw the stutl in the car towards the front end oftener than the other way. I had all ready for 7 or ?'^ days, waiting for a car, then it took 7 full days to come 1644 miles by rail, and the next day to get them out of the car, so it was 16 or 1" days from the time the hives were nailed up until they were opened, when I found just 2 of the combs broken out of the frames, and two other hives had the comb bruised so the honey leaked out some, but not broken. One colony swarmed out, but clustered on the side of their hive, and I put them back and they stayed there. I live about 7 miles from where I have my bees; I went down there yesterday, and they were flying out
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