.TITI.Y 15, 1915 



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Fig. 3. — Interior of tirst car of bees froui Virginia, May 21, 1915, just before the work of unloading began. 



like coidwood, the several liters are locked 

 together, and all that is necessary is to 

 brace the indi\'idiial piles from each other, 

 and yet at the sajue time provide a passage 

 for the attendant so he can water the bees 

 by running his spray nozzle to each tier of 

 h.ives. 



The 2 X 4's put up on edge make it possi- 

 l)le for the attendant to run his hand be- 

 tween the tiers; and if he can feel the hot 

 breath of the bees coming u|) between the 

 colonies, and he heai"s considerable roaring, 

 lie proceeds to give a spray. If the water 

 runs clear down tiiiongli the colony it does 

 no ])ai-ticular barm, althongli too much 

 dousing will kill the young brood. 



Mr. Marchant, who has just brought up 

 two carloads of bees from Apalachicola, 

 likes this new method of piling the hives 

 and crating like cordwood as here shown, 

 and considers it far superior to the old way 

 of putting up shelving that had to be strong 



enough to hold a whole tier of hives, inde- 

 pendently of the tier below. By the new 

 method of loading, one tier of hives sup- 

 ports the tier above. 



IMoving bees by the carload is getting to 

 be a real science, and it is now possible to 

 take bees from the North to the South and 

 from the South to the Nortli without the 

 loss of any bees or brood, j^^'oviding the 

 weather is not too hot.* The great obstacle 

 in the way is the freight, cost of crating, 

 and screens, as well as the trans[)ortation ot 

 attendant.. So far the railroad companies 

 do not put bees in a class where there will 

 be any very large number of shipments 

 from tlie North to the South. Moreover, 

 they compel the shipper to pay regular rail- 

 road fare for the attendant. For all other 

 kinds of live stock, such as horses, sheep, and 



* When the last carload from Texas started it was 

 110 in the shade. Tlie excessive heat and the fre- 

 quont spraying to keep down the temperature killed 

 about 20 per cent of the brood. 



