Mav. 1920 



GLEANINGS IN H E K CULTURE 



277 



FROM THE FIELD OF EXPERIENCE 



^ivo us IH frames of brood or bees and a 

 huiujHM' crop of honey. 



Tlie ;ibnii<l:nu-e of lioney, no doulit, is tlic 

 Ifjidini; factor in fjettinfj queens to lay in 

 tlie lower brood-body in adilition to lilliuij 

 the upper brood-body. IMaj' not capped hon- 

 ey in the lower brood-body also influence the 

 queen to go below and lay? 



In the poor year of 1919 my bees gave 

 aliout 45 pounds per colony, with 61 per cent 

 increase, which was as well as or better 

 than last year. Our bees have greatly help- 

 ed us to meet the H. C. L. 



Brownstown, Ind. D. F. Rankin. 



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DEFENDS THE TRAILER 



Reasons Why Mr. Taylor Prefers the Trailer Rather 

 Than the Truck 



We were, I believe, the first to make use 

 of a trailer in the bee-yard, at least I never 

 heard of a trailer or saw one mentioned in 

 any of the bee journals until we bought 

 ours. It is a two-wheeled one and costs 

 about $75.00. We run three outyards of 

 about 500 colonies and use the Ford car 

 only because it is the cheapest and lightest 

 for getting over the hills to and from our 

 yards. We use two cars, but have one on 

 purpose to hitch the trailer to. We have 

 an extracting outfit at each yard and when 

 extracting take home a load each night to 

 Paris where we store and insure until we 

 ship. If we do not have a load to take 

 home, we just draw a bolt and leave the 

 trailer in the yard until we want it. 



Some have s;iid that a trailer is hard on 



the auto. I say that it all depends on who 

 is at the wheel. We have been using ours 

 with the same car for five summers and 

 have never paid one dollar for expenses 

 caused by the use of the trailer. By reck- 

 less driving one can use up a car in six 

 months without a trailer, but by careful 

 starting with a load and by avoiding ruts 

 and bad places I cannot see that the trailer 

 hurts the car at all. We can easily take 

 1,500 i)ounds on a load, but the driver should 

 start oft" easily and keep his eye on the road 

 ahead and go slowly over any bad places in 

 the road. Where it is good and level we go 

 20 miles an hour with a load. For moving 

 bees there is nothing better. We can take 

 twenty 10-frame Langstroths to a load, and 

 one can hardly feel any jar. Then it is so 

 handy to take empty supers or crates or 

 pails or any light material we may want 

 from one yard to another. When not in 

 use the car can be used for pleasure or 

 running light to the yards where a truck 

 would be too slow and clumsy. 



The main objection to the truck is the 

 high cost and the fact that it can be used 

 only for hauling loads. It would be too 

 clumsy and heavy to use daily going back 

 and forth to the yards; and then the inter- 

 est on the outlay, the wear and tear, the in- 

 surance and the storage (with us it would 

 be stored about eleven months in the year), 

 would amount to more than the hire of a 

 truck for the two weeks that would be re- 

 quired for doing the heavy hauling. By 

 making a long day we could draw home all 

 the honey in a good year from any of our 

 yards in two days, our farthest yard being 

 nine miles fi-om Paris where we store. This 



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