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OUT-APIARIES NO. XI. 



SHUTTING UP BEES, AND HAULING. 



TP it is necessary to fasten frames in the hive, it 

 [gfp may be done any day previous to the hauling. 

 W I prefer to do it when bees are flying. All the 

 ■*■ other fastening may be done anytime before- 

 hand, except the shutting-up of the entrance. 

 That should not be done sooner than the evening 

 before the hauling after the bees have stopped fly- 

 ing for the day. If you are up early enough, you 

 can fasten them up in the morning of the day when 

 you haul them. If it is tolerably cool, or if your 

 bees are very quiet, and you are very careful, you 

 may be able to shut them in without using any 

 means to quiet them. Move softly, for once arous- 

 ed it will take socne time for them to settle down. 

 A little smoke will drive them back so you can im- 

 prison them. Very little is enough, for I suspect 

 that the application of smoke, when bees can not 

 fly immediately afterward, does them no good, to 

 say the least. Lately I use water instead of smoke. 

 * I don't think the water does any harm, and I sus- 

 pect they are often the better for it. Take a pail of 

 water, and, with a dipper, dash about a pint into 

 the entrance, not all at one dash, but so it shall be 

 wet in all parts. That seems to leave the entrance 

 clear of bees, and on the whole I like it better than 

 smoke. 



If you expect to haul more than one load in a day 

 they must all be shut up before they start to fly in 

 the morning. If water be used at the final shut- 

 ting-up, I think it is just as well for the bees to be 

 shut up at night as in the morning. They don't 

 find out they are fastened in through the night, and 

 so don't worry. You may fasten them up in the 

 evening, and haul them the same evening. If the 

 weather is cool they will stop flying quite early in 

 the afternoon, giving you time to make most of the 



journey before dark. Before putting a hive on the 

 wagon, give it a searching examination to make 

 sure there is no crack anywhere that a bee can get 

 through. You will do well to use no very old hives 

 for hauling; still, you maybe obliged to use them, 

 and special pains must be taken to see that there is 

 no d-inger of bees getting out on the way. Plug up 

 carefully with old soft rags any spot that you think 

 is about half big enough for a bee to crawl through. 

 Let me suggest, if I have not done so before, that 

 you must be very careful not to have bees get out 

 on the way. Look all over the top of the hive; exam- 

 ine closely the front, the back, each side; tilt the hive 

 on end, and scrutinize the bottom. Don't be fool 

 enough to hitch your horse in the wagon before 

 your load is on. Let every thing be in readiness to 

 start the minute the horse is hitched on. Have 

 hammer and nails along, ready for emergency. 

 Take a lighted smoker with you, and be ready to 

 have every third man you meet tell you your load 

 is on fire. After you have had experience enough, 

 it is possible you may not keep the smoker burning, 

 but don't try it too soon. 



When I use two teams at a time, both wagons are 

 loaded before either team is hitched on, then both 

 teams are attached. 1 mount one wagon, my assis- 

 tant the other, aud off we go, keeping within hail- 

 ing distance of each other. If bees are Hying 

 when we start, it may be necessary to haul the 

 wagon a little distance by hand before hitching on, 

 so that the bees may not annoy the horses. For 

 some time after starting, if the bees are flying it 

 makes me very nervous to have loose bees flying 

 along, following the wagon, for I am never sure 

 that none of them are getting out of the hives on 

 the wagon. I heave a sigh of relief when the last 

 one disappears. During my first experience in 

 hauling, one day I was going along very quietly, 

 when all at once a number of bees were flying 



