lANUARY 15, 1915 



crystals are an entirely different formation. 

 Tliey take very much longer to form, and 

 they never break the jar. 



On the ground of cheraisti7 the advantage 

 111 tartaric acid can be explained. The bees 

 storing the syrup i-apidly cannot be expected 

 to invert it as thoroughly as with nectar 

 wliich they gather thin from the field, and 

 then have to evaporate to a consistency 



equal to the syrup made according to the 

 above directions. A young man, quite close- 

 ly related to me so far as practice is con- 

 cerned, used to despise tartai'ic acid; but 

 recently he experienced this ei-ystallizing in 

 cool weather, and remedied it by reheating 

 the syrup in the feeders and adding tartaric 

 acid. 



Brantford, Canada. 



MOVING BEES IN CAM LOTS 



A New Arrangement of the Staging to Secure Greater 



omy of Space 



ligidity and Econ- 



BY J. G. BROWN 



Mr. Brown, recently from Colorado, is now one of our apiarists. He accompanied the second car of 



lees tu the Dismal Swamp. — Ed. 



On page 547, July 15. 1914, appeared an 

 illustration of a plan of car staging for 

 moving bees by rail used by The A. I. Root 

 Co. in shipping bees to and from Florida. 

 Rut the severe strain to which the staging 

 i> subjected when holding a heavy load, and 

 tiie bumps of the locomotive when 

 switching, together with the exces- 

 sive freight rates on bees, which in 

 turn makes necessary the conserv- 

 ing of all possible room in the 

 car, caused the devising of a more 

 substantial and at the same time 

 a more economical plan for future 

 car eratings. 



It will be noted by referring to 

 tlie illustration mentioned above 

 tl'.at the uprights bore the weight 

 of all the tiers of hives above 

 them, plus the weight of the stag- 

 ing. When the distance from the 

 I lip of the upper tiers of hives to 

 the railroad track is taken into 



consideration, together with the heavy mo- 

 tion of the car, the reader will form some 

 idea of the strain upon the uprights. Neither 

 will he be surprised that a part of the stag- 

 ing gave way in the first car, and Mr. 

 Marehant was compelled to stop ears in 



><SaHr!#«M»*'' 



Fig. 1. — Crating on platform ready to load. 



I 



Fio. 2. — One section in the car ready for the hivea. 



transit and rebuild the 

 staging. 



The original pur- 

 pose was to arrange 

 the hives so that any 

 one of them could be 

 removed in case the 

 bees died on the trip; 

 that the attendant 

 might be placed at the 

 least possible incon- 

 venience if for any 

 reason he wished to 

 lemove any colony. 

 Experience showed 

 that this was unneces- 

 sary. It wasted valu- 

 able space, for it is 

 very bad to load a 



