The illustration shows my business wag- 

 on with a load of forty supers on. There 

 are generally one or two more grown persons 

 in the touring car, and I have taken as 

 many as thirteen in it, though such over- 

 loading is rather hard on tires and the ma- 

 chine in general. 



The engine of this car is nominally of 

 twenty horse-power, though figured by the 

 rule generally used it is only eighteen, and 

 at this altitude only fifteen, which is hardly 

 enough for heavy loads on some of our hills 

 unless the engine is working perfectly. 



Some details on the construction of the 

 express body may not be amiss. The foun- 

 dation is made of 2X-l's bolted down by the 

 bolts or thumbscrews used to fasten the ton- 

 neau, with another pair set near the front 

 end to overcome any tendency to tip down 

 behind. Lugs into which to screw these 

 bolts must be fastened to the frame of the 

 car. 



On this foundation is built the box 40>^ 

 wide and 56>^ long inside, which is just 

 right for eight hives or supers of the eight- 

 frame size, provided there are no cleats nail- 

 ed above handholes, which are a nuisance 

 whenever hauling is to be done. 



The front end of the box must be high 

 enough, and sit back far enough to keep tlie 

 load from sliding against the backs of the 

 seat in front. The sides, which may be of 

 any convenient height, are braced outside 

 by L-shaped braces, which at the top are 

 formed into hooks turned outward. One of 

 these comes opposite the middle of each row 

 of supers. A waterproof canvas over the 

 top of the load is a protection against dust 

 or rain, and helps hold the load together. 

 A light rope, hooked back and forth through 

 the side hooks, and tied in a single knot, 

 holds all securely, yet may be removed in a 

 few seconds. While an automobile may 

 bounce considerably, it is not so hard on a 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



load, and especially does not shake it from 

 side to side as badly as the ordinary vehicle. 



Jieing an orchardist as well as a beekeeper 

 I am obliged to keep horses. An electric 

 railroad also runs close to my home and to 

 my out-apiaries. I do not use either of these 

 ways of traveling much in summer, but I 

 consider the automobile practially indis- 

 pensable. 



Grand Junction, Colo. 



AUTOMOBILES USED BY A 2000-COLONY BEE- 

 KEEPER 



Combs Hauled to a Central Extracting House in 

 International Auto Wagons 



BY D. C. POLHEMUS 



Ready for a (luick run through mud or sand. 



The accompanying picture shows our au- 

 to wagons, one of which has been used three 

 years and the other two. They are " Inter- 

 nationals," and they have been in use con- 

 stantly from April to November each year, 

 in going to and from our fourteen bee yards 

 scattered over the county at a distance of 

 from three to twenty miles from home. We 

 have headquarters here in Lamar, where we 

 do all the work such as putting in founda- 

 tion, repairing supers and hives, and other 

 work that is not necessary to be done at the 

 yards. On our daily trips this ready-to-use 

 material is taken to the apiaries. 



Of course we do not make very long runs. 

 This style of machine is not intended for 

 fast running, like a pleasure car; but we 

 make an averageof twelve miles an hour on 

 our trips to and from the yards, and carry 

 from fourteen to eighteen full-depth extract- 

 ing supers of honey. We have hauled at 

 one time as many as 36 supers of empty 

 combs. 

 Before getting a machine I felt that it 

 would give us consider- 

 able trouble, especially 

 as some of our yards are 

 in irrigated fields, and 

 some on sandy knolls. 

 The roads are sandy 

 some of the way, for we 

 located the yards before 

 we had the autos, and 

 we picked out all kinds 

 o f out - of - the - way 

 places. We are more 

 careful now where we 

 locate an apiary, for it 

 does not pay to locate 

 where we know we shall 

 have hills, sand, and 

 frequently mud to both- 

 er us every week of the 

 season whether we use 

 an auto or team and 

 wagon. 



We have had very 

 little trouble with these 

 machines. We go al- 

 most anywhere that 

 one can with a horse 



