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frames, tack the ends and slip them down, and.it just fits the 

 space. They are all wedged up fast together, and when you 

 are ready to open the hives just pull them out. It is easier 

 done, and cheaper, and it is perfectly safe. 



SHIPPING BEES BY LOCAL FREIGHT. 



Mr. Abbott — While this question is up I want to touch 

 on a thing right in that line. You know, Mr. York, that you 

 and I went before the classification committee and got them to 

 ship bees as local freight. I want to know if any of the 

 bee-keepers have been taking advantage of that? Is it gen- 

 erally known? I went to ship six colonies into Central Kan- 

 sas and the agent said, "You can't ship these less than car- 

 load lots." I said, "Yes, I can." He sent me to the fore- 

 man and he said: "You can't ship bees that way. You ought 

 to know better than that." I said, "I ought to know bet- 

 ter, and I think you ought to, but you don't seem to know. 

 I was there when they admitted them into the classification, 

 and I am right sure it has not been taken out." He said, 

 "You can't ship them that way; you will have to take them 

 back and ship by express." I insisted upon his looking it up, 

 which he did, and he says, "Why, it is there.'^ I said : "You 

 might have known it, or I wouldn't have told you." He 

 hadn't even noticed that. There hadn't been enough going 

 on there. I wonder if the bee-keepers generally know that 

 they can do that? They didn't down there. Those bees were 

 in St. Joe hives, and all he did was to nail the cover on, 

 and they went to Central Kansas perfectly safe. I think it 

 cost the purchaser about $2 for freight, and the express 

 charges would have been about $10.00. So you can see what 

 Mr. York did ! 



Pres. York — How many have taken advantage of ship- 

 ping bees by local freight? 



Mr. Baldridge — Has it been printed, the classification 

 that they could ship by freight? Has it been printed in the 

 American Bee Journal ? 



Mr. Abbott— I think Mr. York printed it. The manu- 

 facturers got us to go. I wrote the G. B. Lewis Company, 

 and I think it was printed in the American Bee Journal. 



Mr. Hutchinson — Over how wide a scope of country 

 does this classification extend? 



Mr. Abbott — All over. 



Mr. Hutchinson — ^Does that take in Michigan ? 



Mr. Abbott — Nothing east of Chicago. 

 Mr. Whitney — I shiooed 22 colonies from Ohio to Illi- 

 nois by the hundredweight. I didn't have a carload. I had 

 about 2,500 pounds, and they occupied the whole car on the 

 Baltimore & Ohio from Shelby County, Ohio, to Kankakee. 

 I paid regular rates by the hundred. They didn't ask me to 

 take a car. 



Mr. Niver — In New Jersey, Delaware, New York, and 

 Pennsylvania, all through there, they don't ask any ques- 

 tions. I have shipped at different times different quantities. 



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