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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Fig. 1. — D. L. W'uodw arci h home apuiiy where tlie colonies are set before beiag moved to tlie outyards. 



finally got away. When we reached Mober- 

 ly, Mo., the last division east of Kansas 

 City, it was 9 in the forenoon. They told me 

 they were going to try to start a train for 

 Kansas City at 11 :30 A. M. ; but 11 :30 came, 

 and still no available engine. The Govern- 

 ment inspectors had condemned every en- 

 gine in the roundhouse but one, which had 

 to try to get the mail-train through. 



That night some engines got in off the 

 road, so at 3:30 a.m. they started us out 

 with a train crew that had been 12 hours on 

 duty when we left the yards. They got us 

 out about 20 miles west of Moberly to a 

 little siding, and stated that there would be 

 another crew on a special engine to relieve 

 them inside of half an hour. It was six 

 hours before they arrived. They had beoi 

 on duty eight hours, as they carried an 

 extra engine crew. They put both 'engines 

 on the train, which at that time comprised 

 two emigTant cars, four cars of live stock, 

 a few cars of through freight, and my car 

 of bees, etc. They finally plowed their way 

 through to Dresser Junction, 30 miles east 

 of Kansas City; then we went on a siding 

 there with all crews tied up on time limit. 

 Extra crews were to come from Kansas 

 City in half an hour; but when the extra 

 engine and snow-plow got within ten miles 

 of us, the engine broke and returned to 

 Kansas City for repairs; but the snow-plow 

 came on through; and as there was a local 

 freight tied up there in the drifts, and as 



the stockyard men were keeping the wires 

 good and hot about the cars of live stock, 

 they put the local engine on our train, cut 

 out every thing except cars of live stock 

 and emigrant cars and my car, and started 

 for Kansas City in the drifts. We went to 

 within about ten miles and met another 

 extra coming after us. 



We reached Kansas City at 9 :00 P. M., 

 with the temperature 9 below zero, and 

 lacking just 4^/^ hours of 9 days between 

 Kansas City and Chicago. 



I immediately hunted up the yardmaster, 

 and he told me lie Avould have my ear taken 

 to the Missouri Pacific yard by 11, sure. It 

 was about 8 :30 a. m. next morning before 

 they got my car in the Missouri Pacific 

 yards, and at 1:30 p. m. they started south 

 with my cars in a train of through freight, 

 and I arrived at my destination at 6 :45 a. 

 M., 227 miles south of Kansas City. The 

 ground there was not frozen. There was 

 not even any frost in the air. 



By 8 o'clock the teams began to arrive to 

 take me to my destination, 16 miles over 

 rough mountainous roads. In place of 

 there being five wagons with springs for the 

 bees, only one of them had springs, so T 

 hunted up some baled straw, put a good bed 

 of straw under tlie hives, got loaded up, and 

 arrived at our destination just a little be- 

 fore 12 midnight, with 9 loads of bees. A 

 second trip was made for the other four 

 loads on Monday. It was Saturday when I 



