622 
MOVING BEES 
entrance increases the amount of ventila¬ 
tion just in proportion as more wire cloth 
is used. 
MOVING BEES BY TRUCK OR WAGON WITHOUT 
SHUTTING THEM IN THE HIVE. 
This can be done very often without the 
necessity of using wire screens at the top, 
nor even entrance screens. Before the 
hives are loaded, smoke is blown into the 
Screens bent in this shape can be wedged into the 
entrance. No tacks are needed except for long hauls. 
entrances to prevent rushing out and 
stinging when the hive is disturbed. Just 
before the start is made, the entrances are 
smoked again. The subsequent jolting over 
the roads, so far from making the bees 
ugly, quiets them. If.the weather is ex¬ 
ceedingly warm the bees will crowd out 
and cluster round the front of the hive 
rather than smother to death. 
The objection to this plan is that some 
bees get out all over the hives. For this 
reason it should not be used with an ordi¬ 
nary horse-drawn wagon. It has the fur¬ 
ther disadvantage that there will be a lot 
of flying bees around the hives, some of 
which will be lost as the truck moves for¬ 
ward. But when one is not provided with 
screens of any sort he can very often pick 
the bees up, put them on the auto truck, 
and land them at the outyard without any 
further trouble. 
WHEN TO LOAD BEES. 
No bees should be loaded on a wagon or 
truck during the middle hours of the day, 
since many field bees would be lost. They 
should be loaded very late in the day or 
early in the morning while all the field 
bees are in. The hives may be made ready 
at night, and the bees may be moved 
any time the following day, altho on ac¬ 
count of rising temperature they should be 
started as soon as possible. In warm 
weather it is better to move at night after 
all the bees are in. 
AUTOMOBILE TRUCKS OR HORSE-DRAWN 
WAGONS. 
In this day and age, on account of the 
danger from stings the self-propelled wag¬ 
ons are to be preferred. They will make a 
trip to the outyard and back in about a 
fifth of the time; and when bees are re¬ 
moved to an outyard on a warm day quick 
moving is far better than slow moving with 
a team. Moreover, speed develops air cur¬ 
rents that are highly important in moving. 
Ordinarily it takes a team of horses nearly 
half a day to get to a yard four or five 
miles and back, and that spoils the whole 
forenoon or afternoon. A motor truck, on 
the other hand, in the same time can make 
three or four such trips. 
For the author’s apiaries a light Ford is 
used with a small wagon-box on the 
rear to make trips to the yards. This will 
easily carry two men and 12 hive-bodies 
with empty combs, or half that number 
when the combs are filled with honey. This 
wagon-box is just right to carry tools and 
appliances, including hives, so that for 
ordinary outyard work one can make quick 
trips and carry back and forth all he prac¬ 
tically needs. A light Ford truck will do 
general out-apiary work at about one- 
third the cost of a larger machine capable 
of carrying a ton and moving correspond¬ 
ingly slower. Experience shows that the 
small machine will make a run to outyards 
for from five to seven cents a mile, while 
the larger ones cannot do it for less than 
fifteen cents. This includes wear, tear, de¬ 
preciation, and interest. Where one is en¬ 
gaged extensively in the business he can 
afford a light motor truck and a large one 
besides. But as a general thing a small 
machine will do 95 per cent of the mov¬ 
ing, and the other 5 per cent can be moved 
on hired machines of large capacity. 
The illustration shows a light two-pas¬ 
senger Ford with a light wagon-box, which 
can be secured at one-third or one-half 
the price of a larger truck costing two or 
three times as much to operate per mile. 
Moreover, the Ford can be operated by 
