Texas Beekeeping. 



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SHIPPING BEES BY FREIGHT. 



Bees can not be shipped by freight except in carload lots, and at 

 owners' risk, or in smaller lots when taken in an emigrant car with 

 other household goods, when moving to a new location. 



The hives are prepared as above described. An open stock car 

 should be used in the summer ; while a box car, with the doors partly 

 open is better in cold weather. A man should accompany the car 

 to give the bees necessary attention. In the summer time he should 

 be provided with several square five-gallon honey cans filled with 

 water, and a sprinkler with which to sprinkle the bees if they be- 

 come too warm and crowd against the screens. One of the automatic 

 compressed air spray pumps, holding several gallons of water, that 

 can be carried by a strap over the shoulder, and the nozzle attached 

 to a short piece of hose, is the most satisfactory for this purpose. 

 With the hose, any particular hive may be reached, especially if the 

 hives are stacked up high. 



Loading a carload of bees. 



The hives should be loaded in the car with the frames running 

 parallel with the rails, as they can stand the bumping shakes endwise, 

 better than sidewise if the frames ran across the length of the car. 

 It should be remembered that this is just the reverse of the way of 

 loading on a wagon. A space of several inches should be left be- 

 tween the tiers of hives, as they are piled up in rows, leaving an aisle 

 between the rows for a passageway. The whole should be braced well, 

 securing the hives in each row, and bracing from one row to another, 

 bv means of cross ties. 



LOCATING BEES IN THE APIARY. 



Apiary is the proper name of the place where the bees are kept, be 

 there few, or many, colonies. In selecting the site for an apiary the 

 convenience of the apiarist and the welfare of the bees must be con- 

 sidered. A slightly elevated, dry and sheltered location, somewhat 

 protected on the north from the cold winter winds and storms, and 

 open to the south or southeast, with the ground sloping gradually in 



