FEBRUAKY 15, 1915 



Fic. 



-Tliirtyfoiu- colonies packed. 



How many of our beekeepers have cam- 

 eras? 1 think every beekeper should have 

 one, as tliore are so many things that pic- 

 tures exphiin better tlian any amount of 

 description. 



Spring Valley, Minn. 



[Unless the trailer is built for the work 



it lias to do by some concern understanding 

 the ditticulties, the proposition is not apt to 

 be very satisfactory. Even at best it takes 

 considerably more power to move a given 

 load in a trailer than in a specially con- 

 structed box, say, located back of the front 

 seat. — Ed.] 



BY C. L. SNIDER 



The geological formation in eastern 

 Washing-ton is such that there are manj^ 

 holes in the rocks, supposed to have been 

 gas-pockets formed ages ago when the world 



was new. A? there is no linilx'r. there is no 



Fig. 1. — Home made saw table. 



other place for runaway swarms to go. In 

 starting to locate them the beeman knows 

 that they are either on one side of the can- 

 yon or the other, which helps wonderfully, 

 while if it were a bee-tree it might be any 

 old place. 



I lined the last 

 swarm from an old 

 l^rune orchard to a 

 point on the third 

 bench of rock back 

 on the north side of 

 tlie canyon. After 

 some very strenuous 

 climbing I found 

 them in a small ledge 

 aliout ten feet high. 

 They went in at a 

 small hole about as 

 high as my head. As 

 it was late in the fall 

 (it ini;?, and 1 wished 

 to save the l)ees, T 

 ])ut off taking them 

 out until Aui:. 1."), 



ini4. 



When the time ar- 

 rived to begin opera- 

 tions I took my 



