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GLEANINGS JN BKK C^UI/rURE 



Dec. 1 



WILLIAM H. CROWSON DEMONSTRATING BEES AT THE TRI-STATB FAIR 

 AT MEMPHIS, TENN. 



CARRYING HIVES INTO THE CELLAR. 



The Right and Wrong Way of Doing it. 



BY R. F. HOLTERMANN. 



[When we called on 11. F. Holtermann last sum- 

 mer we were prepared to catch him in some mov- 

 ing-picture stunts: but, unfortunately, at the time, 

 having to hurry on, and his yard being located 

 some distance from Brantford, we did not think it 

 practicable to secure any pictures. Along this fall 

 he called at Medina on some business; and while 

 here we availed ourselves ol the opportunity of 

 catching him in a moving-picture stunt, the result 

 showing his method of carrying bees into the cel- 

 lar, as well as the wrona way of doing it. — Ed.] 



It is important in all one's ojierations to 

 plan to reduce the labor and physical exer- 

 tion used in accomplishing his work. It is 

 this in part which makes men valuable in 



the factory, 

 in the work- 

 shop, on the 

 farm, and in 

 the bee-yard; 

 and when one 

 is working for 

 himself he 

 reaps the full 

 benefit of such 

 planning. 



The further 

 out on the bar 

 of a 240-lb. 

 scale we draw 

 the weight, 

 the greater the 

 strain requir- 

 ed to lift it; 

 and so when 

 we carry 

 weights, the 

 nearer we can 

 keep them to 

 the point of 

 suspension 

 the less of an 

 effort is re- 

 quired on our 

 part in carry- 

 in g them . 

 The closer I 

 can keep a 

 given weight 

 to my body, 

 the more con- 

 venient it is 

 for me to lift, 

 and the less 

 effort it takes 

 to carry it. In 

 carrying a 

 hive, what a 

 bee-keeper 

 should aim at 

 is to pick it 

 up and carry 

 it to the cel- 

 lar with as lit- 

 tle strain on 

 himself as 

 possible, and 

 at the same time not disturb the bees. 

 They should not know that the hive is 

 being moved from its position on the 

 hive-stand. This can not well be done if 

 the general method of carrying a hive is 

 used. For example, a hive taken from the 

 back by the handholes, as in illustration 

 No. 4, rests at its back against the legs of 

 the operator; and as a step in advance is 

 taken the hive is forced forward with one 

 leg, only to be struck with a bump by the 

 other leg as he walks. Such motions result 

 in jarring the hive and disturbing the bees, 

 to say nothing of the very great inconven- 

 ience and strain on the apiarist. 



In carrying the bees to the cellar there are 

 generally two of us. We put two twelve- 

 frame hives on a hand-barrow and carry 

 them into the cellar. We have, however, 



