JANUARY 15, 1915 



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Fin 



-Til:; ■■ Commodore " freighted with bees and supplies, standing off to let a log raft pass. 

 George Rea on top, supplying water through the screens. 



twenty uprights, 2 x 4's, long enough to 

 reach within about one inch of the car roof, 

 were used. These pieces were bolted to the 

 crating with %-inch bolts. These, as will be 

 seen, were bolted to the ends of the long 

 cross-pieces in the crating. When these 

 uprights were bolted in place, short pieces 

 2x4 were cut long enough to reach across 

 the alley betw^een the sections. These were 

 spiked to the floor. Similar braces were 

 placed at the top of the uprights. The 

 halves of the car 

 were now braced 

 with 2x4's across the 

 opening at the door, 

 both on the floor and 

 up at the top, and 

 the job was complete. 



By using the pres- 

 ent method one can 

 load 320 colonies, or, 

 if the weatlier i.s cold, 

 384 of the ten-frame 

 size in a 3fi-foot car. 



It will be seen that 

 this method allows 

 suilicient room to use 

 a sprinkler over the 

 tops of any of the 

 hives should any re- 

 quire water, as they 

 most surely will if the 

 weather be even mod- 



erately warm or the colonies be strong. It 

 also allows an alley clear through the car 

 from end to end and across the car from 

 door to door, allowing room to carry water, 

 trunk, suit-cases, etc. 



When we loaded the car we had 16 in 

 each tier in each section, or 64 in one tier 

 in the whole car. We started on the floor of 

 the car in one corner, setting the hives in 

 pairs with their entrances toward the oppo- 

 site end of the car, their backs tight up 



Fit:. (<, — .Ml the comforts of home at the camp in the liismal .'-iwaiiip. 



