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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 HIVK.S 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 hives, then an- 

 yther row of hives set on top of that 



