Gleanings in bee culture . tial to use a very thinboard for this purpose, and I prefer tohave it fit not too nicely, so that the mois-ture, rising up from the center, may beabsorbed readily by the peat-dust above. With this system of wintering I lost acolony only once. This colony had beenfed in autumn with syrup made of unre-fined cane sugar. I found the top-bars ofthe brood-frame of this colony smearedwith excrement, and I noticed a sour smellcoming out of the hive, which convinced methat the food and not my system had beenat fault. Soest, Holland. WINTER PROTECTION WITHOUT LOOSE PACKING BY
Gleanings in bee culture . tial to use a very thinboard for this purpose, and I prefer tohave it fit not too nicely, so that the mois-ture, rising up from the center, may beabsorbed readily by the peat-dust above. With this system of wintering I lost acolony only once. This colony had beenfed in autumn with syrup made of unre-fined cane sugar. I found the top-bars ofthe brood-frame of this colony smearedwith excrement, and I noticed a sour smellcoming out of the hive, which convinced methat the food and not my system had beenat fault. Soest, Holland. WINTER PROTECTION WITHOUT LOOSE PACKING BY H. H. SMITH I have tried nearly all methods of pack-ing bees for outdoor wintering. While Ihave had success Avith most of them if thecolonies were in good condition, with youngbees and good stores, I have found thatnearly all the methods have some serioi^sdrawback. The single-colony double-walledhive is expensive, and heavy to made cases to hold four coloniescost nearly as much as the four liives, and COV^P. I never could get used to the muss of loosepacking material in the fall and , there is not one part of a packing-case which can be used for any other pur-pose during the season after bees are takenfrom the cases. The drawing shows the way I wintered a part of my yard last year. I make a frame of 2 x 4 scantling, large enough to hold four colonies, 2 colonies facing east and 2 west. Two - pieces of 2 x 4 scant- i ling, 6 inches apart, I run across the center of the frame to su]?-port the back ends ofbottom-boards of eachpair of hives. Thisarrangement allowsthe hives to be sjDreadapart during feeding time inthe fall two oufsidecombs are taken fromeach colony, and achaft-packed followeror division-board isput on in their division-boardsare made of a fiameof 1/2-inch i^ine 2inches wide and Yoinch shorter than thehive is long sides are made ofwall-board, manufac-tured by the concernthat makes paroid SEPTEMBER 15
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