. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. T-H® S;MER1CJEJX WMM J^l^REfKIU. 357 r *-^*^*-^*^ which he said : "I had 64 colonies last fall on the summer stands, and 1 have lost only one, the rest appearing to be in good con- dition. The ' Queen of Rosendale ' is just as good as the best of them, and is 50 years old the coming ; If any readers of the Bee Jouunal know any other colony 50 years old, in the same hive that they were first put in, and have the same comb that was built by them the first season, I would like to hear from them in the Bee JouuNAi,. J. S. Baku. Oakfleld,
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. T-H® S;MER1CJEJX WMM J^l^REfKIU. 357 r *-^*^*-^*^ which he said : "I had 64 colonies last fall on the summer stands, and 1 have lost only one, the rest appearing to be in good con- dition. The ' Queen of Rosendale ' is just as good as the best of them, and is 50 years old the coming ; If any readers of the Bee Jouunal know any other colony 50 years old, in the same hive that they were first put in, and have the same comb that was built by them the first season, I would like to hear from them in the Bee JouuNAi,. J. S. Baku. Oakfleld, O., May 9, 1890. Winteriii;; Uees. Having wintered honey-bees in this cold climate for 18 years, I have tried all kinds of schemes to bring them through without loss, or the least loss, and I find that a cellar is the best of all; keep it dark, so that no light can be seen by the bees. Give upward ventilation to the hive, so that the vapor arising from their breath will not form water, and run down into the bees and combs which will wet and destroy them. Avoid noise overhead, as much as possible, or the bees will be cross in the spring. They consume less stores in the cellar, where it does not freeze, as they do not have to eat to make heat, as out-doors, and do not get so full before spring. I put all into the cellar last fall, and suffered less loss than usual. I thought that a chamber was a good place to winter bees, being warm and dry; so I put in 2 colonies, corked them up with rags, and put wire-cloth over the en- trance; they gnawed out, and the mice probably helped some, too. The bees stung the children in the beds, and behaved so badly that I concluded to move the worst ones. 1 got a neighbor to help one day,and we dug a hole in the snow near a hive out- doors—the snow was 2 feet deep ; 1 went ahead, backed down the stairs, the neigh- bor let go, and bee-hive and I were pUed up, down in the stairway, with the bottom- board oflf, as well as the cap, and about a quart
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