. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 262 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL August ferring bees into a good hive. There was much interest in this operation on the part of the novice and skilled beekeeper alike. Fortunately, by this time, it had stopped raining and the movie man was able to operate his machine w-liile the work was in progress. Big baskets of lunch were brought out at the noon hour and the contents quickly disposed of. There was too much to be done to permit the waste of much time, and the crowd was of! to the next stop. .\n interesting inci- dent of the first day was the cutting of a b


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 262 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL August ferring bees into a good hive. There was much interest in this operation on the part of the novice and skilled beekeeper alike. Fortunately, by this time, it had stopped raining and the movie man was able to operate his machine w-liile the work was in progress. Big baskets of lunch were brought out at the noon hour and the contents quickly disposed of. There was too much to be done to permit the waste of much time, and the crowd was of! to the next stop. .\n interesting inci- dent of the first day was the cutting of a bee tree. It was a big sugar ma- ple and the bees were entering at a hollow limb aboiit 30 feet above ground. Men with and later with a cross-cut saw made quick work of felling it. Even the reporter lady gave a hand at the saw. When it was down, a section was cut out and that part occupied by the bees was split open. Although th" colony was not large, it was transferred to a hive in the approved manner. Here again the movie man was kept busy, even showing the falling of the big tree. At one well-kept farm, a big lot of good equipment found and many hives filled with combs, but few bees. The old gentleman who owned them had died, and .American foulbrood made short work of the neglected bees. Here the inspectors made a big bonfire, burning the moth-eaten combs and inside textures, while disin- fecting the hives and such equipment. The reporter lady gives a hand at cutting the tree. as could safely be saved. It was a splendid object lesson on the effect of disease in the apiary. Beekeepers visited, who had had only box hives last year, had every- thing in spick and span order this year, with bees in new hives, nicely painted, and in good show condition. One visit, from a crowd like that, is. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations ma


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