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sound one, and the beemen would not be 

 slow to adopt it. 



The recommendation to use glass more 

 instead of tin is a good one so far as the 

 retail market is concerned. 



The suggestions on selling through gro- 

 cers are good; and if beekeepers would 

 work through them along the lines outlined 

 by Mr. Collins there would be much more 

 honey eaten. 



The trouble is that the average busy bee- 

 keeper has not the time to work up a selling 

 plan like the one suggested, and not one in 

 a hundred has the ability or business acu- 

 men. 



The honey facts for advertising leaflets 

 arranged by Mr, Collins should be made use 

 of by a large number of beekeepers. They 

 can be changed and added to to fit local 



conditions. 



* * * 



Those notes " not for discount " will 

 hardly pass as negotiable with some of us. 

 Of course, we know what Arthur intends. 

 All he wishes is to set some of us slow think- 

 ers to speeding up a bit, and so he says some 

 foolish thing's in a very interesting way. 

 And for this we thank him very much. For 

 instance, just look here and see what he 

 says : " Better err on the side of trying a lot 

 of fool things than miss one good one be- 

 cause you know it won't work." Then a 

 little further on he reads the riot act on the 

 editors of the bee journals, presumably for 

 publishing the fool ideas of Miller et al. 



He says, " Stimulative feeding for spring 

 should always be done in the fall. Give them 

 all you think they will need, then double it, 

 and then half as much again for good 

 measure." Arthur has given this instruction 

 for years, and we have not all leai'ned it 

 yet, and we shall not all learn it for a good 

 while, for " it ain't so " everywhere. In 

 the first place, if you are a practical bee- 

 keeper, and feed all you think a colony 

 needs, you can not double it nor add half 

 again for good measure. You can tell that 

 to your back-let amateurs in Rhode Island. 



But that question regarding the number 

 of queens, cost, etc., I cannot fully answer. 

 Mr. Nichols probably raised 150 queens, 

 and used perhaps half a dozen colonies. He 

 would have a hard time telling how much 

 they cost, for the time was the principal 

 element. Yes, I shall go down there in the 

 East some time, and learn how you raise 

 400 queens in one hive and get a crop of 

 honey from it too. There are lots of things 

 we can learn from each other. 



[This was referred to Mr, Miller, who 

 le plies:] 



The unexpected has happened! Wes. 



Poster has, sat up and taken notice. He has 

 discovered Rhode Island and some other 

 things — notably, that he makes mistakes 

 (Gleanings, page 166). Glad to have his 

 company. As to feeding, the advice was for 

 ordinary beekeepers, not for extraordinary 

 ones, for the kind who think a gallon of 

 half-and-half syrup " an awful lot " for one 

 colony of bees. " Spring stimulating in the 

 fall " is backed by some excellent authori- 

 ties, and I do not feel a bit lonesome. 



Now, Wesley, if you will come east I'll 

 show you a few newC?) wrinkles and lots 

 of revamped old ones which pay in my New 

 York and Rhode Island yards. Also I'll 

 introduce you to a Rhode Island " clam- 

 bake," and you will learn of a new joy. 



Those who do not know how to take my 

 notes should not. — Arthur C. Miller. 

 w « » 



MOVING BEES BY AUTO TRUCK. 



I have had my fill of moving bees this 

 year. I moved 200 colonies in close to the 

 foothills for the early mountain bloom ; 

 made 150 colonies of increase, and moved 

 the 350 colonies back to the country about 

 June 15, together with about 100 colonies 

 that were bought, that were located in 

 Boulder. The bees were all moved by auto, 

 nearly three hundred being moved at three 

 loads with a large two-ton White truck. We 

 had more than two tons on the truck, how- 

 ever. Screens over the top of the hives were 

 used, and many of them had supers on 

 which made them heavy and bulky. The 

 time taken to load one hundred colonies on 

 the truck was about two hours. One hour 

 and a half was taken to run fourteen miles, 

 and one hour was taken to unload and open 

 the entrances. 



Two colonies (the best ones) were smoth- 

 ered on the load that we hauled in the day 

 time. The other two large loads we hauled 

 at night with the best of success. 



We made fine time in hauling twenty 

 colonies at a load on my Reo auto. We 

 loaded in thirty minutes, drove six miles, 

 unloaded, and were back loading up a sec- 

 ond load in one hour. We hauled two loads 

 in this way before breakfast. A few days 

 later, however, we broke the rear axle with 

 twenty colonies of bees on the auto when 

 going about fifteen miles an hour, and we 

 were nine miles from home. Fortunately 

 we had stopped and retied the load more 

 securely, or we would have dumped the load 

 into the road. As it was, not a hive moved 

 from its position. 



It is important in preparing bees for 

 moving in the summer to give all strong 

 colonies clustering space in empty supers 

 above the combs. 



