. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 546 THE AMERICA^ BEE JOURNAL. September I,. (All rights reserved by the Nhrtherti. Neicspaper Syndicate, of Kendal, Eiifjlatid.) PROFITABLE BEE-KEEPING, WITH HINTS TO BEG-INNERS, BT Autfior of •? Bees and Bee-Keeping," ''Fleasurnble Bee-Keeping," etc. No. 9.—WINTERING. Every spring reports from all parts of the country deal with extensive losses of eolonles. The ordinary observer may be excused if he infer from such accounts that as losses usually occur early in the spring wintering is a subject of dif- ficulty, and a great stumbling block t
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 546 THE AMERICA^ BEE JOURNAL. September I,. (All rights reserved by the Nhrtherti. Neicspaper Syndicate, of Kendal, Eiifjlatid.) PROFITABLE BEE-KEEPING, WITH HINTS TO BEG-INNERS, BT Autfior of •? Bees and Bee-Keeping," ''Fleasurnble Bee-Keeping," etc. No. 9.—WINTERING. Every spring reports from all parts of the country deal with extensive losses of eolonles. The ordinary observer may be excused if he infer from such accounts that as losses usually occur early in the spring wintering is a subject of dif- ficulty, and a great stumbling block to the great majority of bee-keepers. As a matter of fact, the losses are, I venture to assert, due in nine casi^s out of ten to absolute carelessness or neglect, tho oftentimes the result of ignorance as to the bees' requirements in the shate offood. It is not so much that bees require in the winter proper, as tho consumption of food then by a strong and well protected colony is comparatively small : but it is rather when breeding has commenced in earnest that stores rapidly diminish : and this is in March and April, just before new honey is brought into the hive in quantity suffi- cient to supply the daily wants of the bees and the ever-in- creasing number of hungry grubs. To winter bees successfully is not a difficult matter in the British Isles, but it is one of the most important problems that the bee-keeper has to face, and if he can solve it, as he may and should without difficulty or expense in time or money, he will have got one step, and a big one, too, nearer that success in bee-keeping we hear much about but seldom realize in our own apiaries. A colony properly wintered should come out in the spring stronger in bees than it was when closed up early in October the previous autumn, instead of being, as colonies too often are, weakly and thin in numbers throughout the spring. Scaled stores should also remain in such quantity as will en- sure the colony having a suff
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