. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. VOL. I. F&BRUflRY, 1891. NO. 2. their confinement by stress of weather. This one idea, it seems, takes posses- sion of bee-keepers, with but few ex- ceptions. Those who write gushingly about ventilation constitute them- Managemeni off Bees in Winter. BY C J ROBINSON. The problem of safe wintering in high, cold regions, is not yet solved, and the subject is still one of much selves learned physiologists, and at- importance to bee keepers in rigor- tempt to theorize by likening bees ously cold climates. The condition physically to mammals; such
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. VOL. I. F&BRUflRY, 1891. NO. 2. their confinement by stress of weather. This one idea, it seems, takes posses- sion of bee-keepers, with but few ex- ceptions. Those who write gushingly about ventilation constitute them- Managemeni off Bees in Winter. BY C J ROBINSON. The problem of safe wintering in high, cold regions, is not yet solved, and the subject is still one of much selves learned physiologists, and at- importance to bee keepers in rigor- tempt to theorize by likening bees ously cold climates. The condition physically to mammals; such reasoning and perfection of colonies during win- cannot bri ,g forth light. A constant ter, and of the brood comb and young current or change of air is not essen- brood during Spring determines the tial for the support of life in tad-poles success and profits of the owner. and fish, nor do hibernating creatures, With bee-keepers the ever recur- including bees, require supplies of air, ring problem, how may bees he kept as do animals that feed on air for a during winter's reign in their most supply of oxygen. perfect condition, is still a, theme of Bees, like tropical plants cannot reflection and discussion. abide in, and endure a low tempera- Thanks are not due to the thou- tore, except by clustering, and they sands of writer* who have theorized cannot exist while clustering a on the subject, without tin- knowledge of scientific principles, but we owe a, debt of gratitude to those who, by their researches and laborous experi- loug time, unless amply protected against rigorous cold. Bees, as well as man, had an Eden home in the be- ginning. Science and art renders ments, have, in some measure, dispell- most of the habitable globe a possible ed the darkness that years ago shroud Eden for man, but the ease is differ- ed the winter problem. Theory, un- ent with bees—as differently as are less based upon correct principles, bees from mankind; yet science and cannot be taken as an
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