. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 750 AMERICAN BEE ^y^ ii^:yii. y^ y^k 7fKi^y^yfs:y^yfs:ii^y^-}^ytKyfi:yss:yis:yt'- >?l< '^ yt<y^y\. \jf xv xv xtx xV >V. >i;^, >iii!tte: >>;te:>tjiL:i>te: ;fa. >t^ xt/i: >K >ttiji. j>t^:^>a ^WINTERING BEES IN THE CEI^I^AR. BY C. DAVENPOKT. I would like to say that the editor selected the title to my former article, on page 658, and I notice he refers to me as a "big bee-man ;" now I have some pretty big bees, but I am not very big myself—I am just middling-sized ! Th
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 750 AMERICAN BEE ^y^ ii^:yii. y^ y^k 7fKi^y^yfs:y^yfs:ii^y^-}^ytKyfi:yss:yis:yt'- >?l< '^ yt<y^y\. \jf xv xv xtx xV >V. >i;^, >iii!tte: >>;te:>tjiL:i>te: ;fa. >t^ xt/i: >K >ttiji. j>t^:^>a ^WINTERING BEES IN THE CEI^I^AR. BY C. DAVENPOKT. I would like to say that the editor selected the title to my former article, on page 658, and I notice he refers to me as a "big bee-man ;" now I have some pretty big bees, but I am not very big myself—I am just middling-sized ! This time I will try to say something more about wintering bees in cellars, for successful wintering, to most of us in the Northern and Middle States, is one of the most difficult problems we have in our chosen, and, to me, beloved pursuit. In the first place, in carrying the bees into the cellar, I regard it as very im- portant that they are disturbed as little as possible in the operation. If a colony is disturbed enough so that the bees become alarmed, they will fill themselves with honey, or syrup, and they start Into their long confinement under very unfavorable conditions. The hive bottom-boards should be loosened the day before, or in the morning of the day they are to be carried in. I loosen the covers at the same time, and do both as carefully as I can, so that the jar and snapping which is found to take place more or less will disturb them as little as possible. If they are carried in at the time this is done, they are much more apt to become alarmed, for in loos- ening the bottom-boards they are sure to be disturbed some, but not enough but what they will soon quiet down with no harm done, if that is all that happens to them at the time. For a long time carrying bees in and out of the cellar was about the hardest and most unpleasant work I found about bee-keeping. But a number of years ago I made a carrier for this purpose, which makes the work much easier, and distu
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