. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. American ^cc Jonrnal| with the screens on the fronts. An alley was left lengthwise of the cars to make spraying easy. The bees were loaded in but one end of each car, and the other end was loaded solid with supplies and braced in by 2x4's. No supplies were put on top of the bees, as we wanted every- thing free for spraying. A fine spray pump and a barrel of water kept every- thing cool when there was any need of a cooling off. First, strips an inch thick and 4 to 6 inches wide were put on the bottom of the car, and tacked down so they would not slide
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. American ^cc Jonrnal| with the screens on the fronts. An alley was left lengthwise of the cars to make spraying easy. The bees were loaded in but one end of each car, and the other end was loaded solid with supplies and braced in by 2x4's. No supplies were put on top of the bees, as we wanted every- thing free for spraying. A fine spray pump and a barrel of water kept every- thing cool when there was any need of a cooling off. First, strips an inch thick and 4 to 6 inches wide were put on the bottom of the car, and tacked down so they would not slide around and get out from un- der the hives; then one tier of hives (about 60) was put in which reached to the doors. Each hive was blocked in separately by nailing the blocks at the corners of the bottoms into the strips the bottoms rest on. The entrances were facing each other so that the spraying could be easily done. When the first tier was in place 0-inch boards were put on top of the first tier of hives, and another tier of hives was put in the same as the first. We put in 4 tiers and a part of 5 tiers high. There is one point that should be emphasized, and that is, have the hive bodies, bottoms and covers nailed to-. Crating Hives and Supers for S nii'i'iNG. gether with a strip of lath at each cor- ner, and then when blocking in, block each hive independently to the strips on which it rests, having these inch thick and 5 or 6 inch wide strips fast- ened so they will not move from side to side or end to end. Do not do any bracing against the hive-body, but let the bracing done by the blocks be against the bottom - board. If you should block in the bottom-board tight to the strips and then brace against the hive-body, you would very soon have the hive knocked off its bottom- board. When the tiers are all in, then 2x4's should be run from the top to the bot- tom of the car, butting against the ends of the bottom-boards and the board strips that the different tiers rest upon.
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