i Wl'AKV 1. 1915 



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Hollermann's power triuk uiih 



luaJ of cmiJt.\ 



liaps some beekeepers do not know that, if 

 llie cjiu'tMi and biood are there, the bees will 

 1 euiain contentedly in the super. 



We found a few young bees in some 

 >upers; and occasionally, after being on 

 only five hours, some more bees; but there 

 were not enough left to make the removal of 

 the supeis of honey inadvisable if they were 

 needed that soon. 



1 remember coming to a .super with a lot 

 of bees on the combs, and saying to one of 

 the students, "We will investigate the cause. 

 Perhaps the bee-escape is clogged." 



We found the escape raised at one side so 

 the bees could pass 

 back into the super, so 

 that there was really 

 no bee-escape board on 

 that hive. 



The honey extracts 

 readily with the twelve 

 frame friction - drive 

 extractor. We have 

 now used these boards 

 in five apiaries, and 

 there will be no more 

 shaking and brushing 

 of bees from the combs 

 of honey in the supers. 



In the years gone by 

 T myself have nearly 

 always had tiie work 

 of removing tlie honey 

 from the hives and 

 freeing tliem from the 

 bees by sharp shake.>< ; 

 and I have found this 

 no light work when 

 followed up day after 



day about as fast as a 

 rather active man can 

 move. It jars contin- 

 ually the whole system. 

 Another advantage 

 in the bee-escape board 

 is that it prevents the 

 demoralization of the 

 apiary at a time when 

 it tends to robbing and 

 the making of cross 

 bees. However, let me 

 sound a note of warn- 

 ing. There must be no 

 chance for robber bees 

 to get into the super 

 from which the bees 

 have been cleared. 



THE AUTO TRUCK FOR 

 TRAKSPORTATION. 



Accompanying this 

 article is an illustra- 

 tion of the auto truck 

 1 have purchased to use in connection with 

 apiarian work. As seen in the illustration 

 it is loaded with forty supers (twelve- 

 frame), containing combs which have been 

 extracted, and which are about to be re- 

 turned to the apiary from which they have 

 been taken. 



I find this truck a very g^eat advantage, 

 it has a capacity of 1500 lbs. weight. There 

 are times when a truck of greater capacity 

 would be very convenient; but the desira- 

 bility of this increased capacity is confined 

 to so short a time that it would, in my esti- 

 mation, be more tlian counterbalanced by 



I'lame supers. 



i.i.^ son Olrnn .Tiid five stiidonts, vlio wcro \vi(1i him 

 (luring the seasiin of 1014. 



