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while the okl bees were in the field. This, 

 of course, left only young bees and brood 

 in the hives to be shipped. 



He had taken 250 colonies of bees to 

 Moapa, Nev., in the fall of 1912. He made 

 275 nuclei, raising his own queens. Ho 

 placed the nuclei by the side of the old 

 colonies and removed the frames with young 

 bees and brood from the old colonies, and 

 left the old queen and field-bees on the old 

 stand. He had a shallow super-rim with 

 wire gauze nailed on top, and a similar one 

 under the bottom. He left a bee-space be- 

 tween the bottom super and hive till ready 



to ship, and then slii)ped the hive so as to 

 close the entrance. He nailed the supers on 

 and shipped to Southern Utah. They came 

 through in a cattle-car, reaching Utah July 

 1, 1913. There was practically no loss of 

 bees, and they made a fine record for the 

 rest of the summer. They did better than 

 bees shipped from Southern California at 

 the same time and to the same locality. 



It is the old bees that make trouble on 

 the way, and most of them do not survive 

 the journey. 



Spanish Fork, Utah. 



CAN BEES ON D 



SE HANGING FRAMES BE MOVED WITHOUT FAST= 

 ENING THE ¥Ri 



BY E. S. MILES 



I once supposed that loose hanging 

 frames would require secure fastening ere 

 they could be safely hauled around by wag- 

 on, and that belief came very near making 

 me a user of the Hoffman frame. I soon 

 found, however, that, for this locality, the 

 Hoffman frame is almost immovable except 

 on hot days, so I went back to the loose 

 hanging frames, thinking it better to have a 

 frame I could use, even if I had to fasten 

 them some way, if it became necessary to 

 move. Well, Avhen T came to move, as most 

 people do some time in life, I had about 185 

 colonies on loose hanging frames. I had 

 about 25 miles to haul them by wagon, and 

 I expected it to be a great job. 



I myself had to go March 1, leaving the 

 bees to move later when time to set them 

 from the cellar. This necessitated a drive 

 of 25 miles to set the bees out; and as we 

 thought best to let them have a fly once, we 

 had to drive up one afternoon and set out 

 enough for two loads. (The people who 

 bought the place were afraid of bees, and 

 did not want us to set them all out at once.) 

 We found it took the next day to get them 

 out, fasten the frames and have the two 

 loads ready to load in the evening so we 

 could start back early on the morning of 

 the second day. It thus took us about 2^/2 

 days to make a trip and get two loads which 

 consisted of about 70 to 80 colonies. In 

 order to fasten the frames we bent or 

 kinked some stiff wire which we inserted 

 between the bottom-bars, tipping the hive 

 up from the bottom to do it, an assistant 

 smoking the bees up out of the way so that 

 it held the bottom of the frames from 

 swinging. This kinked wii'e rested on the 

 bottom-board, with each end bent up to 

 spring against the sides of the hive. This 



held tlie bottoms of the frames nicely, and 

 the tops we stayed by a 14-inch strip of 

 board across each end, a small nail being 

 shoved through it into the top-bar of each 

 frame. This worked all right, but it was 

 also back-breaking work, and took about 

 half a day to fasten up 75 to 80 colonies. 

 We might have considered it a success, ex- 

 cept that circumstances rather forced us to 

 cut some corners. 



By the time the roads were good for 

 Iiauling, it was getting rather late for set- 

 ting bees out; and as we were not there we 

 could not open the cellars at night to ven- 

 tilate; and so when we went on our second 

 trip we found the bees becoming very un- 

 easy. The cellars were warming up; and as 

 it was warm, and the soft maples in full 

 bloom we decided to set the bees all out that 

 trip. 



The next day was warm, and there was a 

 strong south wind so that it was not fit to set 

 bees out. However, we felt it necessary 

 under the circumstances to get them out of 

 the cellars, so we set the rest out any way. 

 The wind and consequent drifting of the 

 bees made us longer in putting them out, 

 so it was too late to fasten frames unless 

 we waited over one day for the purpose. 

 The weather looked threatening, so we 

 determined to try two loads without fasten- 

 ing the frames. We did this with consider- 

 able foreboding, and only the fear of get- 

 ting held away from home by bad weather, 

 and having to haul over bad roads, and the 

 desire of the people to have us get the bees 

 away, caused us to take what Ave considered 

 at that time grave risks from loose combs. 

 Imagine our agreeable surprise, however, 

 on unloading at home, to find no injury 

 whatever to most of the combs. Those in 



