ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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cheaper than to buy a motor truck; if 

 you have four or five or six outyards, 

 a motor trucli is the cheapest. 



If you have a building there you 

 practically have to own that land; 

 that means another expense. If you can 

 get just what land you want for a bee 

 yard that would be one thing; but yon 

 might have to buy ten or twenty or 

 thirty acres to get what you want. 



Another advantage is this: 



If you own that ground there you are 

 pretty apt to keep bees there year 

 after year, although there may be a 

 better location within two or three 

 miles of you. 



The beauty of a motor truck is, that 

 you can have a central location and 

 you need own no more land except that. 



In using a motor truck you can have 

 your bees wherever you take a notion 

 if you get the consent of the land- 

 owner. Offer him fifty pounds of honey, 

 and he will say to you : "Now, don't for- 

 get to bring those bees back next year." 



Some people might say, put up a 

 building at the outyard; but if you do 

 this the landowner is going to in- 

 crease the rent. 



If there is no danger but what you 

 can move within an hour or two, he is 

 not going to say anything. But if you 

 can't move away then you have to 

 come across. 



Another advantage of the motor truck 

 is this: In years like the last two 

 years, you don't want too many bees in 

 one place. 



With a motor truck it does not make 

 any difference whether you have ten 

 or twenty or thirty hives in one place 

 or another. It takes only ten or twen- 

 ty minutes to crank up your machine, 

 and you can make your circuit in a 

 few hours, if you have good roads. 



It may rain but you can put a chain 

 on your tire and go anywhere. 



The model trucks nowadays are a 

 practical thing — not an experiment. 



Another thing: The uses of the truck 

 in apiary work: One way is- to haul the 

 honey home and have it extracted; and 

 the other to do the extracting at each 

 yard; then the honey has to be hauled 

 home after it is extracted. Why not 

 haul it beforehand? 



In a small yard it takes as long to 

 put your machinery in the outyard and 

 take it down again as it does to bring 

 the honey home and extract it. 



Having your extracting outfit in one 

 place you can put in a modern outfit. 



leave it there, and bring the honey 

 home to extract. 



I drive out in the morning and, the 

 first thing I do, I get a lot of honey be- 

 fore the bees wake up, and I have been 

 there and have gone before they know 

 I have been there. 



Another thing is this: If you have 

 a building at the outyard, you have 

 to have a wheelbarrow to bring the 

 hives and supers, etc., to the hives. 



With a motor truck, you can drive 

 up to the yard of forty or fifty colo- 

 nies and have the hives all around 

 your motor truck and stop right there 

 in the middle of the bees and put your 

 supers on or take them off, or do any 

 work you wish. You can drive around 

 your yard, if you have more supers 

 than you need you can stack them up 

 there; pile up what you have left and 

 let them stand there. The r next time 

 you come around, if you want to use 

 them, all right; if not, they are right 

 there when you do need them. 



I have taken my truck and taken forty 

 supers four miles, put them on the 

 hives and back again within two hours. 

 I have a slow speed truck, ten miles 

 an hour. 



You can go as fast as you please with 

 some of the trucks. 



Some say. ''But there is the deprecia- 

 tion in your truck." 



Well, a truck that a bee-keeper 

 would use would last him a good many 

 years before he would wear it out; and 

 the advantages you have in the use of 

 the truck are many times more than 

 the depreciation. 



In the two years I have driven a 

 truck the expense has been but trifling 

 for repairs; the cost of gasoline, in- 

 significant; very little oil; the tire ex-' 

 pense, nothing; the tires will last you- 

 three or four years the way the bee- 

 keepers use the truck. 



So, as for myself, I would not think of 

 such a thing as having a building in the 

 outyard. I can do more ■u^rk, with 

 less effort, with a motor truck. 



Mr. Kildow — He says he can go out 

 in the morning and load up a lot of 

 bees before the bees find out he has 

 been in the yard. 



I don't know what kind of bees he 

 has; mine find it out. 



Mr. Bull — What time do you start 

 in, in the morning? 



Mr. Kildow — My bees are always 

 awake, no matter when I get there. 



