. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. J be (§ee-Keepeps' JAeviecu' A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to tlqe Iqterests of Hoqey Producers. $L00 A YEAR, W. Z. HUTCHISON, Editor and Proprietor, VOL VIN, FLINT, MICHIGAN., APRIL, 10. 1895. NO. 4. Work at IVticliigaii's Experimental ^piarv. B. L. TAYIiOK, APIABIST. WINTER EXPERIMENTS. I N order to as- 1 sist in a thor- ough under- standing of the ex peri ments which have been undertaken dur- ing the present winter, I here give first a de- scription of the cellar used for holding the bees during the winter months. I have a honey- house and shop thirty fee
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. J be (§ee-Keepeps' JAeviecu' A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to tlqe Iqterests of Hoqey Producers. $L00 A YEAR, W. Z. HUTCHISON, Editor and Proprietor, VOL VIN, FLINT, MICHIGAN., APRIL, 10. 1895. NO. 4. Work at IVticliigaii's Experimental ^piarv. B. L. TAYIiOK, APIABIST. WINTER EXPERIMENTS. I N order to as- 1 sist in a thor- ough under- standing of the ex peri ments which have been undertaken dur- ing the present winter, I here give first a de- scription of the cellar used for holding the bees during the winter months. I have a honey- house and shop thirty feet square, under the whole of which is a cellar in earth which is called clay loam. This cellar is flanked on the west by a barn cellar from which it is separated by a stone wall laid in mortar the same as the wall which incloses it on the other side and is protected overhead by a floor and a ceiling partially filled in between with sawdust. The north half of this is con- verted into a receptacle for the bees by the erection of a double wall packed with saw- dust midway east and west so as to cut it off completely from the south Upon the outside the cellar is banked up to the sill with earth except where there is a window on the north side and an outside door at the north-east corner. This door opens out directly into the apiary. This protection upon the south and west from the cold south-west winds of winter and from the sun of early spring, gives the cellar a temperature of remarkable even- ness. This temperature is little affected by outside influences, being controlled princi- pally by the number of colonies which the cellar contains at any given time. When it contained about two hundred and forty col- onies, the greatest number wintered in it at one time, with protection given to the out- side door by a packing of leaves, the tem- perature remained throughout the winter at about 50° with but little variation > ; during the past winter it has contained about one
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