Gleanings in bee culture . e stated. Up to Jan. 1 we found many bees deadon the bottom of the ventilating the first warm day we took the bees out and gavethem a11 i g h t ;then weput themback o nthe hive-stands, atthis timeputtinghalf thebees inone com-partmentand halfin then -THE NUMBER OF DEAD*BEES ON A VENTILATED HIVE-STAND, AND THE put in aNUMBER ON A BOTTOM WITH NO VENTILATION. Scheme of It will be remembered that, in our Jan. 15thissue, page 83, we reported unfavorably onthis principle of wintering; but later on,when the bees had had a flight, and had beenput b
Gleanings in bee culture . e stated. Up to Jan. 1 we found many bees deadon the bottom of the ventilating the first warm day we took the bees out and gavethem a11 i g h t ;then weput themback o nthe hive-stands, atthis timeputtinghalf thebees inone com-partmentand halfin then -THE NUMBER OF DEAD*BEES ON A VENTILATED HIVE-STAND, AND THE put in aNUMBER ON A BOTTOM WITH NO VENTILATION. Scheme of It will be remembered that, in our Jan. 15thissue, page 83, we reported unfavorably onthis principle of wintering; but later on,when the bees had had a flight, and had beenput back, we concluded that, perhaps, thatscheme of shutting the bees within the hivewas going to prove a success after all. Now,however, we are again in a state of uncer-tainty, with indications going to show thatfor our conditions, at least, it is not a have just taken our colonies out of thecellar, and find quite a number of them dead,and all the rest in a greatly weakened con-dition. As compared with former years. 1907 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 557 ventilation foi* the cellax, whereby the tem-perature could be reduced, that worked sosatisfactorily that we were very hopeful ofgood results, and so Ieported in our issue forSlarch 1, page 308; but when we came to car-ry our bees out this spring, the silent deadtold us another tale. The subjoined half-tones, Figs. 1 and 3,from photos of the ventilating up at random, Iepresentthe number of dead to each hivesince the middle of January. Fig. 1 shows some of the bot-toms have fewer dead bees thanthe others, while the two on theleft foreground seem to have moredead than the average. An ex-amination of the col6nies revealedthat this great amount of deadbees just below the cluster andin the hive was possibly a sourceof infection to the live ones dead, swollen with dysen-tery, were traveled over by thehealthy bees, with the apparentresult that the infection was carried to thebees above, which in tuin
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