. The honey bee: a manual of instruction in apiculture. ll the cluster hives (fig. 72) do this well ; alsothe forms shown in figs. 73 and 74if well packed over the combs andventilated above the packing. (5) There should be no manipulationout of season.—Breaking up the clus-ter and exposing the individual beesand their combs to a low tempera-ture, as well as causing them to gorgethemselves with honey when an op-portunity for a cleansing flight maynot occur soon, are also causes which bring on diarrheal to complete the winter stores, when necessary, should be d
. The honey bee: a manual of instruction in apiculture. ll the cluster hives (fig. 72) do this well ; alsothe forms shown in figs. 73 and 74if well packed over the combs andventilated above the packing. (5) There should be no manipulationout of season.—Breaking up the clus-ter and exposing the individual beesand their combs to a low tempera-ture, as well as causing them to gorgethemselves with honey when an op-portunity for a cleansing flight maynot occur soon, are also causes which bring on diarrheal to complete the winter stores, when necessary, should be donesoon after the last honey flow, so that the bees will settle down forthe winter on the approach of cool autumn days. After this they arebetter off if left undisturbed until the final work of preparing themfor winter is done, which, if the hive is well arranged, will be nomaterial disturbance to the bees. It is always preferable not to beobliged to touch the brood combs or disturb the cluster when theweather is too cold for the bees to fly FlG. 74.—Double-walled hive adapted to out-door wintering as well as summer use below40° north latitude in the United of each wall, % inch; space be-tween walls, 2 inches, packed with dry chaffor ground cork. (Original.) OUTDOOR WINTER 1 Mi. A consideration of the requirements above mentioned leads at onceto the essential features of any plan of outdoor wintering that may befollowed in the colder portions of our country with uniform success,namely, the presence in the colony of a vigorous queen less than twoyears old; a good cluster of healthy bees bred the latter part o( theseason, that is, of sufficient numbers so that when closely clustered 110 MANUAL OF APICULTURE. during quite cool weather late in October or November not less thansix spaces between the brood combs, and preferably eight or ninespaces, shall be occupied by a good number of bees, or that the. clustershall be at such a time not less than 8, a
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