. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. •HIE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 175 hives, and a 16-foot rack, it is an easy matter to put on 90 hives. I put on only 60 on one load, and 40 on the other. I did this because the team was not heavy enough to haul a heavier load over the roads we had to travel, and, besides, there were supers and empty hives, light, but bulky, with which to fill out the loads, and this stuff had to be moved. It required a day to unload the car and move the bees and supplies to the apiary, hence, it was three days from the time the bees were shut in before they could be liberated,
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. •HIE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 175 hives, and a 16-foot rack, it is an easy matter to put on 90 hives. I put on only 60 on one load, and 40 on the other. I did this because the team was not heavy enough to haul a heavier load over the roads we had to travel, and, besides, there were supers and empty hives, light, but bulky, with which to fill out the loads, and this stuff had to be moved. It required a day to unload the car and move the bees and supplies to the apiary, hence, it was three days from the time the bees were shut in before they could be liberated, but they bore the journey without serious loss. In the stroncfest colonies was from a at McBain, where we were to move about 200 colonies, scattered in three apiaries, to Pioneer, some 25 miles north of McBiiin. Here at Pioneer is where Elmer lives, in some old lumber shanties that he has patched up, and here will be headquarters for this sum- mer, at least. CHAFF TOO BULKY FOR PROFIT- ABLR MOVING. The hives in the home apiary, at McBain, were eight- and ten-frame Langstroth. At wloat was called the "Cuba " yard, five miles south, there were about 30 colonies in single- walled Langstroth hives, and between. Two Loads of Cavanagh Bees, in Chaff Hives, enroute for the Raspberry Regions. handful to a pint of dead bees. The day that we moved the bees in, was quite warm, perhaps 80 in the shade. Next came the moving of about 50 colonies, some three miles, toth's same spot. These 50 colonies were brought up here last fall by Mr. Cavanagh, and wintered by burying them in clamps. This accomplished, I turned my face southward, to meet my brother Elmer .50 and 60 in Hilton chafT hives. The man who practices migratory bee- keeping certainly does not wish for chatf hives; 44 hives were all we could put on two loads. To load these, one row of hives was set down in the bot- tom of the hay rack, two strips of boards laid on, lengthwise the wagon, and nailed fast to the hiv
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