. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. â ^. ?0L. I. FLUiT, MICifiM, mVEMBER 10, 1888. 1, 11. Moisture Unimportant except in Its Relation to TemperatureâWhat's the Matter with Sugar! â⢠JAS. HEDDON. ;,R. EDITOR:âOf course I read your ~ leader on the moisture question be- fore beginning this article; and, as usual, you have gone over all the ground, leaving nothing for me except to sanction what you have said on my side of the question; and make known to my bee- keeping brothers what twenty years of expe- rience have taught me. How perfectly to the point is your declaration that, if we do noth
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. â ^. ?0L. I. FLUiT, MICifiM, mVEMBER 10, 1888. 1, 11. Moisture Unimportant except in Its Relation to TemperatureâWhat's the Matter with Sugar! â⢠JAS. HEDDON. ;,R. EDITOR:âOf course I read your ~ leader on the moisture question be- fore beginning this article; and, as usual, you have gone over all the ground, leaving nothing for me except to sanction what you have said on my side of the question; and make known to my bee- keeping brothers what twenty years of expe- rience have taught me. How perfectly to the point is your declaration that, if we do nothing more, we shall perhaps settle the question that the subject is of little impor- tance. It seems to me unnecessary that I consume your valuable space in reciting all the particulars of different conditions under which my experiments have existed. I will not do so. but will say that I am positive that moisture is not a main factor in the cause of bee diarrhoea; the one great cause of our winter losses. The whole thing is in the food, every ^/jmc. and temperature is the main auxiUiari/ cause. When fed upon pure cane sugar syrup, stored in combs contain- ing not one cell of bee bread, I had nearly 100 colonies winter perfectly in a damp cel- lar. Water and mould gathered under the covers and upon the alighting boards. The temperature was below the freezing point a great deal of the time; several times going below 20" F. Every one of those sugar-fed colonies came out in perfect health, without one particle of faecal accumulation; not even water was voided upon their first Hight. If I could believe that moisture played any special i)art in the wintering of bee?. I sliould believe a moist cellar better than a dry one. You have been over all the ground in your iutroductoiy remarks in the last Review, ))ut 1 may rei)eut and say that my experience sanc- tions this: that as temi)erature his much to do witli l)ee diarvh⢠and .pei;manently, to the bees^yet I am not very ra
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