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Fis- 2. — Outyard No. 2, near enough to ihe buckwheat so that it does not have to be moved for that flow. 



arrived. They made thirteen loads of the 

 stuif we loaded at the other end on to four 

 loads. 1 had notified the i^arties who were 

 to see to getting I he teams by telephone 

 from Kansas City when I left there. Wheii 

 I finally got them unloaded I found over a 

 third of them dead, and the rest might as 

 well have been ; for all through that storm, 

 of course, every bee. that broke the cluster 

 was a dead one. 



But, thanks to Mr. Ahler's schooling, in 

 all the shunting (and, of course, rough 

 usage they passed through) never a hive 

 left its place an inch, nor was a cover loos- 

 ened, nor did a tiling of the kind go wrong. 

 That storm, as nearly as I could tell by 

 reading and talking with others, passed but 



little if any south of the Missouri River. 

 The bees that were left had a good flight 

 tlie third day after I got them to their 

 destination. It stormed until the snow was 

 18 inches on a level, and we had eight nights 

 when the temperature went from 8 to 17 

 below every night. The old-timers claimed 

 that we had the coldest M'inter and the most 

 snow that had been experienced for years. 



Instead of natural pollen in February it 

 was the last of March before we had any; 

 and then, to cap the climax, we had the 

 driest summer here they had had for 25 

 years. The bees got hardly a bit of white 

 honey, and the source of the fall flow all 

 dried, so I have had to feed. 



Clio, Mo. 



HGRATORY BEEKEEPING IN NEW YORK STATE 



All Auto Truck for Movieg to Buckwlieatt LocaBioius 



BY D. L. WOODWARD 



As I practice migratoi-y beekeeping, no 

 doubt some of the readers of Gleanings 

 will be interested to learn the way in which 

 I manipulate my apiaries. 



As I bring all of my bees home to winter 

 in my house cellar, I will start in the spring 

 with the bees all at the home yard, Fig. 1. 

 About half of my bees are shown in this 

 photo, the rest being set o'lt near the cellar, 

 to remain there until time to remove them 



to the outyards. The ijhoto was taken the 

 day after the first supers were put on. If I 

 could have waited until later I could have 

 shown more supers, or I might have carried 

 out several hundred empty supers and 

 placed them on the hives while the pictures 

 were being taken ; but I am not so fond of 

 work as that. 



In this locality we take our bees from the 

 cellar from the 1st to the 10th of April. 



