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Fig. 6. — Piled on the warehouse landing waiting for the car. Upper 

 rims and screen already on, the covers left on also, for the time being. 



panying illustrations. The intention was. 

 of course, to remove the super and telescope 

 covers in case it would prove to be too warm 



Pig. 7.-^Tacking on the entrance screen. These screens hold their posi- 

 tion by friction, and do not need to be tacked until just before hives are 

 loaded. A wide piece of galvanized wire cloth is bent in the shape of a 

 long V or wedge, with a right-angle bend half an inch from one of the 

 edges. The point of the V or wedge is pushed in until the right-angle bend 

 comes flush with the front of the hive, the other edge lying flat on the 

 alighting-board, thus affording plenty of surface for tacking. This plan 

 gives much more surface than a plain vertical screen, and the bees can not 

 crowd down, shutting off the air at the bottom. 



for the bees in the car; 

 but before loading they 

 were left on. 



Under Fig. 7 will be 

 seen a little note de- 

 scribing the means for 

 providing entr a n c e 

 ventilation. A straight 

 piece of wire cloth, un- 

 less secured by strips 

 of wood, will not hold 

 its position readily 

 over the %-inch-deep 

 entrance ; and, what is 

 more, it presents only 

 % inch by the width 

 of the hive of air sur- 

 face. By bending the 

 strip of wire cloth into 

 the shape of a letter 

 V, and crowding this 

 V-shaped piece into 

 the entrance the air 

 surface will be increas- 

 ed thi-ee or four fold. On one arm of the 

 V another angle is formed, as seen in the 

 diagram accompanying. The purpose of the 



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last fold is to provide 

 a place for nailing at 

 the top, as shown in 

 Fig. 7. 



In moving bees to 

 outyards, if we close 

 the entrances at all we 

 put these bent pieces 

 of wire cloth in the 

 entrance, without nail- 

 ing. Friction is suffi- 

 cient to hold them in 

 place, because the V- 

 shaped strip of screen 

 has a tendencj' to 

 wedge against the top 

 and bottom of the 

 opening. 



It would almost 

 seem as if the fates 

 were against us when 

 we get ready to move 

 a carload of bees. A 

 year ago last spring, 

 when we started to 

 move our second car 

 of bees from Florida 

 we were nearly over- 

 whelmed by a flood. 

 The accompanying il- 



