JUNE 1, 1914 



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is about July 20, we move the honey home 

 to extract. By this time buckwheat is com- 

 ing into bloom, and we start at once to move 

 the bees to the buckwheat locality, which is 

 about six miles from our home yard, leavin;^ 

 our white honey to be extracted after the 

 bees are moved. In order to do this, one 

 must have plenty of sujoers with drawn 

 combs. Fig. 3 shows the bees in (heir tem- 

 porary yard, with hundreds of acres ot 

 buckwheat in every direction. In the back 

 row there are three hives with the moving 

 scieer.s still on them. These screens are 

 made in the shape of a telescope cover, witli 

 an inch-square cleat on all four sides of the 

 inside of the rim, and rest on the uppei' 

 edge of the hive, the top being covered with 

 wire screen. The entrances are closed tight 

 with a strip of board dropped into metal 

 slots which are nailed to each side of the 

 bottom-board. With our equipment it is 

 not much of a trick to move bees, as our 

 hives are all ten-frame Lang-stroth, well 

 painted and sound, so that we are never 

 troubled with leaks. Our truck platform 

 was built to carry 33 hives which fit snugly, 

 so that there is no jostling on the road. 



Yard No. 2 is located at the edge of the 

 buckwheat belt, so that they do not have to 

 be moved for the buckwheat-honey tiow. 



During the fore part of October the colo- 

 nies are all moved back home, and the sea- 

 son's work is finished as far as the bees a)e 

 concerned. 



In 1912 I purchased a 45-horse-power 

 Fiat chain-driven auto and converted it into 

 a truck to haul my bees and honey. (See 

 page 213, April 1, 1913.) For that purpose 

 it proved quite satisfactoiy, but rather ex- 

 pensive. It carried the bees without any 

 jarring to speak of, and did it quickly. For 

 light work it proved too expensive, so in 

 1913 I purchased a small car for running 

 about to outyards, etc., and for retailing 

 honey. I had a covered box built to fit on 

 behind the seats which will hold 500 lbs. of 

 honey put up in pails and bottles. Tins is 

 about all that I can sell on the i)ublie mar- 

 ket at Albany during market hours. Here 

 I make such a display as is shown in Fig. 4. 

 The beauty of selling on a market of this 

 kind is that there is no delivering to speak 

 of, as each customer carries bis honey home. 



Pig. 4.- 



-The light car used for selling hoiiey at the 

 public market in Albany. 



I use a five-pound friction-top pail lith- 

 ographed with a red background, with gold 

 and Jblack lettering. I find that such a pail 

 is a great advertisement. Ofttimes people 

 will send to the market by a neighbor or 

 their children for a pail of honey, with the 

 instructions to be sure to get it from the 

 man with the red pails. I also use glass 

 bottles holding six ounces, which retail for 

 ten cents, and pint jars for which I get 25 

 cents. The pails retail for 65 cents. 



I have educated my trade to take my 

 honey in pails granulated, but I always 

 have it liquefied in the glass, as it shows oft 

 to so much better advantage. I would advise 

 all producei"s of honey to encourage the use 

 of honey in the granulated state, by all 

 means. 



Clarksville, N. Y. 



GETTING STUCK WITH A LOAB OF BEES IN L' 



BY G. FRANK PEASE 



Some time ago I had occasion to take an 

 automobile load of bees 21 miles to another 

 locat^ion in Louisiana. There were 56 colo- 

 nies in the load, and they were moved be- 



fore the clay roads became dry after liard 

 rains. The truck went down at one place, 

 and we had three hours of hard work to get 

 the wheels planked ujd so we could gel: out; 



