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and nailed fast to the boards. A row 

 of hives was then set upon each "wing" 

 of the rack, nailed fast, and a sort of 

 band of boards put around the whole 

 load, the boards being nailed together 

 at the corners of the load. 



SOME OF THE ESSENTIALS OF SUCCESS- 

 FUL MOVING Of bees. 

 You will notice that I almost always 

 say that a hive is "nailed fast." 

 With ordinary loads, and good roads, 

 this would probably not be necessary 

 for short hauls, but with long hauls, 

 large loads, and rough roads, the 

 only safe plan is to fasten each hive so 

 that it can't move; if this is done, and 

 the bees given plenty of ventilation, 

 space above the combs in which to 

 cluster, there is not much danger of 

 loss unless the weather is unusually 



hot. So far as I know, not even one 

 comb has been broken down in moving 

 all of those colonies. I might mention, 

 however, that Mr. Cavanagh lost 15 

 colonies in moving two loads last 

 August; but the colonies were more 

 populous, and the weather warmer, 

 and, if I understood him correctly, he 

 left the combs in the upper stories that 

 he put on, which I think was a mis- 

 take, as much of the ventilation is 

 thereby shut off, besides, when the 

 bees are excited and hot, their first 

 thought is to get off the combs, and, if 

 the upper and lower story both are 

 filled with combs, thep can't do it, and 

 it worries them. In hot weather it is 

 well to have wire cloth and space both 

 above and below the combs. 



Flint, Mich., June 11, 1906. 



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N the spring I keep right straight 

 ahead, building the colonies up as 

 strong as possible, without turning 

 aside to clip queens, tear down cells or 

 shake swarms. Of course, where one 

 colony is weak, but has a good queen, 

 and anotht^r colony is so strong as to 

 be in advance of the season, I some- 

 times exchange combs of brood, but 

 where the colonies go into winter with 

 young, vigorous queens there is seldom 

 much of this to do. Yet there is con- 

 siderable attention required to get all 

 the combs solidly filled with brood. 

 Over abundiince of stores of honey in 

 the brood nest, a solid comb of pollen, 

 or an old or moldy comb that the bees 

 are tearing down, may be in such po- 

 sition as to retard the depositing of 

 eggs by the queen. 



The first swarm which issues is 

 hailed with delight; and with many 

 colonies of equal strength there will be 

 more soon to follow. Upon the proper 

 treatment of these swarms and the old 

 colonies from which the swarms issue, 

 depends a large share of our success. 



The requisite amount of surplus re- 

 ceptacles and clustering space should 

 be on the hives, and the swarms should 

 be placed back where they come from. 

 If the swarm issues, say, at eight or 

 nine o'clock in the forenoon, I shake 

 the bees from the limb into an empty 

 hive-body having the entrance closed 

 and a screen over the entire top to give 

 plenty of ventilation while the bees are 

 confined in it. The caged bees should 

 be set in a shady place. After being 

 in this box an hour or so, or long 



