. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1917 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 19 working for an hour I finally got a quart or two of the bees into my little hive and gave the demonstration with- out mishap. One traveling with a live bee demon- stration will find more kinds of experi- ence than he ever dreamed possible. The janitor will often decide that the crate containing the cage is full of some new fangled window screens and proceed to nail them to the side of the building or raise some kind of rumpus because he was not consulted before an order for screens was placed. On one occasion an express dr
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1917 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 19 working for an hour I finally got a quart or two of the bees into my little hive and gave the demonstration with- out mishap. One traveling with a live bee demon- stration will find more kinds of experi- ence than he ever dreamed possible. The janitor will often decide that the crate containing the cage is full of some new fangled window screens and proceed to nail them to the side of the building or raise some kind of rumpus because he was not consulted before an order for screens was placed. On one occasion an express driver, who was sent to transfer the outfit to another building where the demonstration was to be repeated before another audience, took it to another railroad and shipped it by freight. My address was painted on the outside of the crate to avoid its going astray. It so happened that they were loading a car of freight at the time the driver reached the depot, and was spread over the wire-cloth on top of the hive to give as many bees as possible access to it. Within a few minutes it would all be taken up and the bees w3uld be very quiet. To get young bees I usually went to a hive, in the middle of the day, when the old force would be in the field, or moved the hive several feet from its normal position for several hours. It is the old bees which are most likely to make trouble, and in this way it is easy to avoid getting them into the traveling hive. Persons who aspire to give public demonstrations frequently ask what price they should receive for such work. That question can be answered only in a general way. The beekeeper who wishes to advertise his product at his country fair may well aflford to give the demonstration without compensa- tion, for the advertising it brings him. But when a man must carry his outfit. CAGE FOR BEE DEMONSTRATIONS AND CRATE IN WHICH IT IS SHIPPED FROM PLACE TO PLACE within a few minutes it was on its way. !The particular railroad to which it was deliv
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