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acts also as chief expert to the British Bee- 

 keei)ers' Association, as well as loeiiig their 

 librarian and lecturer. He is expert and 

 lecturer to several of the leailing county asso- 

 ciations, and frequently acts as judge at some 

 of the principal honey shows, and he has 

 had the unique experience of being honored 

 with lecturing on bees before the king and 

 other members of the royal family, as well 

 as several foreign royalties. 



Mr. Herrod is a first-class hive-maker, and 

 can turn cut a hive as perfect as any manu- 

 facturer. He is an excellent amateur i)ho- 

 tographer, and has gradually accumulated 

 over GOO lantern slides covering every phase 

 of bee-keei)ing. Some good specimens of 

 practical manipulations were noted, and 

 flowers adapted for i)ollen and nectar supply 

 were admirably illustrated; but perhai)s the 

 most interesting were some of the more deli- 

 cate features of the bee's anatomy. This 

 collection is being steadily increased, and 

 ■will soon number 1000. 



One of the most interesting departments 

 of :Mr. Herrod's manifold duties is his lec- 

 tureship at Swanley Horticultural College, 

 where he educates a large number of men 

 and women, and the good work he performs 

 is certified by the extensive list of graduates 

 Avho yearly qualify for experts' certificates. 



Mr. Herrod has recently acquired the pro- 

 prietorship of the British Bee Journal and 

 the British Bee Record, and from the be- 

 ginning of this year he has been acting as 

 joint editor of both publications. Laider the 

 very able guidance of the senior editor he is 

 acquiring a knowledge of the technical work, 

 and gradually fitting himself for the full 

 duties of the office when Mr. Cowan lays 

 down the reins. That such a day may be 

 very far distant will be the sincere prayer of 

 every bee-keeper, not only in these islands, 

 but wherever apiculture is being carried on. 

 Mr. Herrod has a noble tradition to uphold, 

 and it is no mean position he will occupy in 

 filling the place of such lights in the apicul- 

 tural world as Messrs. Abbott, Peel, and 

 Cowan; but 1 feel confident he will worthily 

 carry on the good work of the past thirty- 

 nine years, and still further advance the 

 banner of progress in apiculture. 



Banff, Scotland. 



THAT AUTOMOBILE TRAILER. 



BY F. B. CAVANAGH. 



For a man to make two trips, each of 50 

 miles, with 25 hivts of bees, and in a single 

 night, would be impossible with a horse. 

 With an automobile we covered the 100 

 miles with plenty of time for loading and 

 unloading. 



The car is a two-cylinder 24-horse-power 

 .lackson, with the detachable tonneau re- 

 moved and a trailer attached. The trailer 

 is built to carry 1200 lbs. individually over 

 the rear springs, while the front end, rest- 

 ing on the deck of the auto, will carry easily 

 600 lbs. more. When empty the front end 



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of the trailer is about all one man cares to 

 lift, and is very nearly the same weight on 

 the deck as tlie tonneau would be. If the 

 readers of Cleanings desire it I will fur- 

 nish a mechanical description of the trailer 

 later. 



It will be noticed that the front end is on 

 a bolster held by a single bolt through the 

 reach. The bolster connection is of great 

 importance, in that it nxust be very strong, 

 and flexible, to bend not only for the side 

 ruts and in turning, but also as hills or 

 knolls raise or lower the trailer wheels out 

 of line. 



We do not shut the bees in nor do we fas- 

 ten the hives together in any way. A re- 

 movable wire cage completely surrounds the 

 hives (the front section was left off in the 

 picture), so that nothing can fall off the 

 load. If daylight approaches, causing the 

 bees to fly, we draV the canvas top tightly 

 over the load (it is tacked to one side), and 

 confine every bee to the cage. A fine breeze 

 circulates through the hives; and, although 

 the weather was very hot, but few bees tried 

 to escape through the screen. I suppose it 

 must have taken their nerve to see through 

 grated bars the landscape swiftly whirling 

 by. The worst feature was in unloading the 

 bees at night, and, as every bee-keeper can 

 imagine, they "didn't doa thing " but sting, 

 sting, sting, with bees all over the hives 

 when we reached the yards. However, with 

 good smoke we managed very well, and left 

 the trailer quite free of bees each trip. I 

 never care if bees are out of the hives so long 

 as the stragglers are at the yards, one or the 

 other, so that they can hunt a hive when 

 daylight appears. 



Were I to sign my name and say no more, 

 the bee-keepers would all be wanting a trail- 

 er a la motor; but I must mention the less 

 rosy side. The weight of the bees and the 

 hard pulling at from 5 to 25 miles per hour 

 got away with the .3>^-inch rear tires in a 

 short time, so that one blew u]) with a can- 

 non-like report on next to the last trip. So 

 completely demolished was it that we re- 

 moved it and ran in on the rim, and hauled 

 another load a short distance the same way. 



At another time a loose screw in the timer 

 cost us three hours; and, again, two punc- 

 tures caused slight delays. Part of the time 

 I had a friend of jovial and adventurous 

 temperament, but the novelty and joy of 

 the rides gave place to weariness as the " wee 

 sma " hours approached. ^Moving bees is 

 strenuous work, even with an automobile 

 trailer; but it is very easy on the bees. They 

 have a nice cool ride, with little jolting, which 

 is soon over. Scarcely a hive will shift from 

 its position en route. Our roads are mainly 

 gravel, although there were several miles of 

 the worst kind of sand, and some hills where 

 all the power was needed on low speed. 



The picture shows only a load of supers, 

 as we had no conveniences for j)icture-tak- 

 ing when the bees were moved. 



With this, my first trailer load, I burned 

 out a bearing in the crank-case by not hav- 

 ing the mechanical oiler working. Seeing 



