. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1898. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 709 San Pete, gave some good reports of large yields of honey this seasi:u Id different counties in the State. Joshua Terry, of Draper, reported that the Utah honey exhibit at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition at Omaha was a credit to the State and to the bee-industry. Many of our good-natured bee-keepers promise to attend the bee-meetings, but they too often forget it. No. 1.—The Care of Bees for Wintering. BY C. r. DADANT. For a number of years past we have had very good win- ters for bees, and the losses ha
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1898. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 709 San Pete, gave some good reports of large yields of honey this seasi:u Id different counties in the State. Joshua Terry, of Draper, reported that the Utah honey exhibit at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition at Omaha was a credit to the State and to the bee-industry. Many of our good-natured bee-keepers promise to attend the bee-meetings, but they too often forget it. No. 1.—The Care of Bees for Wintering. BY C. r. DADANT. For a number of years past we have had very good win- ters for bees, and the losses have been small. This success is likely to cause us to be less particular about putting the bees in proper condition to go safely through the period of cold weather that may usually be expected in this latitude. What are the necessary requirements lo safely winter a colony of bees? In roy mind I divide these requirements un- der five heads : 1st. A sufficient number of bees. 2nd. A sufficient quantity of food. 3rd. Food of the proper quality. 4th. An occasional flight duriug cold weather. 5th. A certain amount of shelter. The first and main requirement is the number of bees. It matters but little how well the other four reqirements may be fulfilled, a handful of bees, in this latitude, cannot be safely wintered, and in hard winters it requires a very strong colony to safely go through the almost polar extremes of cold, which are so often experienced, and which make us compare our winters with those of Siberia. The number of bees which forms the colony at the begin- ning of winter often depends upon circumstances entirely in- dependent of the will or the management of the apiarist, and we can therefore give but little advice on this point. Probably he only time when the bee-keeper can be of any help to his bees, to secure a sufficient amount of strength, is after a short crop, when the bees have gathered so small an amount of honey that they have been unable, tho probably willin
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