. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. >72 August, 1913 American "B^ctJonrn^^ long. In my locality there is not much danger of being caught before the mid- dle of December; but 1 never care to take chances after Nov. lo, and the first flight they get after that, in they go. If a warm day comes soon after they are in cellar, it doesn't worry me. I had rather be caught that way than the other way. TEMPER.\TI_-R1-; OF CELLAR. The first difficulty met in attempting to have a bee-cellar of right tempera- ture lies in the thermometers. Examine a lot of ordinary thermometers for sale in a
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. >72 August, 1913 American "B^ctJonrn^^ long. In my locality there is not much danger of being caught before the mid- dle of December; but 1 never care to take chances after Nov. lo, and the first flight they get after that, in they go. If a warm day comes soon after they are in cellar, it doesn't worry me. I had rather be caught that way than the other way. TEMPER.\TI_-R1-; OF CELLAR. The first difficulty met in attempting to have a bee-cellar of right tempera- ture lies in the thermometers. Examine a lot of ordinary thermometers for sale in a store, and you will find them varying through quite a number of de- grees. Not all can be right. Not long ago Dr. Phillips came along with a thermometer of realiability, and I found upon comparison that the thermome- ter in my cellar registered 5 or li de- grees too high. It was a rickety old affair whose health had not been im- proved by a fall which had displaced the glass tube. I adjusted the tube to agree with his, and was glad to find that two other thermometers were all right. We are told that somewhere about 50 degrees in the middle of the cluster is the point at which bees are most nearly dormant, and that 45 degrees is the favorable temperature for the surround- ing air. So with a reliable thermome- ter, the beginner may think he has no difficult problem. But he will find diffi- culties. If he does not know for cer- tain whether his thermometer is reli- able, then a safe advice is: " Find out at what point the bees are most quiet in your cellar by your thermometer, and then try to keep your cellar at that ; Safe advice to give, but not so easy to follow. In the first place it is not so easy as might be imagined to decide when bees are most quiet. There is no way of measuring the degree of quietness. Stand in the bee-room today and listen to the murmur of the bees. Then stand in the same place tomorrow and listen. You can hear the murmur all right
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