Gleanings in bee culture . the winter months, the 738 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE mortality here in the South is much greatertiian at the North, where they semi-hiber-nate. As a result, more or less brood-rais-ing is continued all winter provided thebees are furnished the necessary food. Bee-keeping in this part of Florida is a ratherdifficult problem to the beginner and tomost of the native people. As a result,but few bees are kept in a modern way,and those that are kept in gums andbox hives succumb to the moth-worms andants in due time. Fortunately Ave haveno foul brood now; and, notwithstandin
Gleanings in bee culture . the winter months, the 738 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE mortality here in the South is much greatertiian at the North, where they semi-hiber-nate. As a result, more or less brood-rais-ing is continued all winter provided thebees are furnished the necessary food. Bee-keeping in this part of Florida is a ratherdifficult problem to the beginner and tomost of the native people. As a result,but few bees are kept in a modern way,and those that are kept in gums andbox hives succumb to the moth-worms andants in due time. Fortunately Ave haveno foul brood now; and, notwithstandingthe fact that bees require feeding a longtime if any honey is secured, yet it willpay every owner of an orange-grove tokeep a few colonies of bees, and properlycare for them, in order to secure the per-fect pollination and fertilization of hisbloom. The added increase of fruit willmore than pay for all the sugar, time, andtrouble , Fin. A WINTER CASE FOR ONE COLONY, WHICHMAY BE TAKEN APART BY H. FISBECK. ^^^^^^^ Having read the different methods forpacking bees for winter in the Sept. 1stissue, 1 feel as though T should like to givemy method in the past and for the taking out the two outside framesof honey I see that the remaining eight L. frames containat least 25p 0 u n d s. Theempty spacesare filled withpads of newspa-pers (the outsidesheet being asheet of oiledc raft paper)tightly scjueezedin. These jads rest on small sticks on thebottom-board, allowing any water that mightaccumulate to run under. A %-inch board,the same dimensions as the inside of thehive, separates the paper from the tin spacer is nailed on the bottom ofeach end of the boards to keep themstraight in the ^hive. I then puton a bee-escapeboar d, leavingout the Porterbee-escape forupward ventila-t i 0 n. Whenbrood - rearing SIDE PANEL
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