. Gleanings in bee culture . Another view of one of the yards: the colonies are often left in these cases until clover-bloom. I extracted o5 ten-frame supers of honey,getting, in the ten hovirs, 13 cases of honeyand 15 lbs. of wax, or a little over one poundto the case. Mr. (ileorge averages 22 lbs. ofwax to a ton of honey. We use eight combsin a ten-frame super, and uncap deep. By the extractor in Fig. 2 will be noticedfive large cakes of fine yellow marketablewax without a particle of dirt in it, just as itcame from the separator. San Diego, Cal. THE OUTSIDE WINTERING OF BEES. BY K. F. HOLTE
. Gleanings in bee culture . Another view of one of the yards: the colonies are often left in these cases until clover-bloom. I extracted o5 ten-frame supers of honey,getting, in the ten hovirs, 13 cases of honeyand 15 lbs. of wax, or a little over one poundto the case. Mr. (ileorge averages 22 lbs. ofwax to a ton of honey. We use eight combsin a ten-frame super, and uncap deep. By the extractor in Fig. 2 will be noticedfive large cakes of fine yellow marketablewax without a particle of dirt in it, just as itcame from the separator. San Diego, Cal. THE OUTSIDE WINTERING OF BEES. BY K. F. HOLTERMANN. At this date, Oct. 26, my bees have beenin winter quarters, and ready for winter, forover three weeks, and I have for that lengthof time turned my back upon them andtheir care, perfectly confident that theyneed no further attention until April, unlessa thaw should set in and the melting snow. One of the covers removed, and the leaves taken out to show the hives underneath. Nov. 15, 1911 I turn to ice, preventing the bees getting air;and then arrangement has been made ateach yard to remove the obstruction. Some of the readers of Gleanings havewondered that I should be wintering mybees outside when a first-class bee-housecosting $1000 is available. WHY I WINTER OUTDOORS INSTEAD OF INMY $1000 CELLAR. When wintering in the above-named cel-lar my method was to remove the bees fromthe cellar and place them on stands. Theywere next taken to clover pasture, sometimesa distance of thirty miles. Next they weretaken to buckwheat, and finally returned tothe bee-yard in connection with the cellar. By this method the hives and bees wereunprotected during the spring, also in theautumn, until placed in winter quartersabout Nov. 20. I was also compelled to beon hand when the cold weather began tomoderate in spring, and there was always agood deal of anxiety as to the best time toset out, s
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