THE AMERICAjSI BEE JOURNAL. 



757 



For tbe American Bee Journal. 



Onr Railroad Apiary, Car and Track. 



M. A. WILLIAMS. 



"Dear Editor :— Weenclose picture 

 of oui- laili'oad apiary, showing our ex- 

 tracting car, etc. We liave 140 colo- 

 nies in this apiary and with the aid of 

 our extracting car two men can talie 

 the honey from them in one day. At 



6 feet wide, painted bright scarlet, 

 and trimmed with white, and makes 

 a very showy appearance; but the car 

 is not for sliow, by any means. It has 

 a double sash, one side being glass and 

 the other wire cloth, so that we can 

 have free ventilation tlirough. Each 

 side of the car is fitted up with two 

 drawers that hold just ten Langstroth 

 frames. 



We start out with one drawer 

 full of empty combs on each side. 

 Pushing the drawer alongside of the 

 hive, we take the full frames from the 

 hive to the empty drawer and till the 

 hives right up with the combs from 

 the other drawer. Then we are 

 through with one colony, the time oc- 



will be noticed that our friends run 

 their honey right to tlie station on this 

 same car, so that their honey is ship- 

 ped without the need of a team at all. 

 Now, by having other apiaries along 

 the line of the main railroad, 10 or 

 even 100 miles away, where there is 

 found unusual pasturage, the car,with 

 all its appurtenances, may be quickly 

 and easily transported, and then, with 

 suitable switches, the honey can be 

 taken with little bother and expense. 

 It rather seems to me now as if this 

 were a more promising Held to develop 

 than the floating apiary that made 

 such a sensation a few years ago." 

 Berkshire, X. Y. 



BAILBOAD APIARy, EXTRACTING CAR AND 2RACR. 



the end of the center track is our 

 honey house, fitted up with tanks, 

 where we empty the honey as fast as 

 we get a load. You will see that each 

 side of the car is tilted with drawers, 



TRACK AND SWITCHES. 



one for full combs and the other for 

 empty ones. 



The extracting car and track we 

 have already desci'ibed, as follows, in 

 Oleanings : The car is 12 feet long by 



cupied being incredibly short. Then 

 we are ready for No. 2, and the combs 

 from No. 1 , when extracted, go into 

 the hive of No. 2. Of course, the 

 honey is being extracted inside the car 

 at the same time. The drawers are so 

 arranged that the car is bee-tight 

 when they are either open or shut. 



Figure 2 shows our track and )iow 

 we switch from one track to another. 

 There is one movable length of track 

 that easily moves from the main track 

 to the switch, on either side. The 

 sketch rather shortens the yard, as the 

 distance from the maple tree to the 

 honey house is greater than the 

 breadth. The two rows on the left are 

 chaff hives, and the rest of tliem are 

 the Langstroth. The sketch shows 

 how we are located as to the depot, 

 railroad, etc. 



Mr. Root makes the following re- 

 marks about the use of the car : " It 



For the American Bee Journal. 



How I Malie Nuclei and Queen Cells. 



G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



When I was writing my series of 

 articles on the. " Production, Care, and 

 Sale of Comb Iloney," I was requested 

 by several persons to write an article 

 oh making nuclei, and getting queen 

 cells for the same. Many ways of 

 making nuclei have been described, 

 some of which are good ; still after 

 trying nearly all the plans described 

 in the bee publications, I have settled 

 on one which I prefer to all others. 



Nearly all are aware that if we take 

 a frame of lirood, bees and honey, 

 from a populous colony and put it in 

 an empty hive without a queen, that 

 nearly all the bees will return to their 

 former home ; but if we take the 



