. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to i\\e Interests of Hoqey Producers. $L00 A YEAR. W. Z. HOTCHINSON, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. VIIL FLINT, MICHIGAN, MAY, 10. 1895. NO. 5. Work at IVIioliigaii's Experimental ^piarv. B. L. TAYLOB, APIABIST. WINTEB EXPEKIMENTS. mHE last men- T" t i o n e d ex- periment is of more than ordi- nary interest and importance on account of the fact that the ablest and most experienced bee- keepers are divi- ded in their opin- ions as to the chief cause of the dysenteric ailment brought on during confinement in winter ; one party
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to i\\e Interests of Hoqey Producers. $L00 A YEAR. W. Z. HOTCHINSON, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. VIIL FLINT, MICHIGAN, MAY, 10. 1895. NO. 5. Work at IVIioliigaii's Experimental ^piarv. B. L. TAYLOB, APIABIST. WINTEB EXPEKIMENTS. mHE last men- T" t i o n e d ex- periment is of more than ordi- nary interest and importance on account of the fact that the ablest and most experienced bee- keepers are divi- ded in their opin- ions as to the chief cause of the dysenteric ailment brought on during confinement in winter ; one party attributing it to improper food and another to super-abundant moisture. The colonies selected for the experiment were taken in- differently from the apiary and did not dif- fer greatly from the others either in quality of their stores or in their numercial strength except that it would have been difficult to have found another colony in the apiary as weak as No. 1, unless it might be among the four or five abnormal colonies. I have already alluded to the use of a hygrometer in the bee cellar during the win- ter to determine the degree of moisture in. the air, and it should be said in addition that it showed almost uniformly a difference of one-half a degree between the dry bulb and the wet bulb at a temperature of 43° to 45° which was generally that of the cellar, indi- cating that the percentage of saturation was about 9(3, lacking only about four per cent, of complete saturation. In the case of the colonies under consideration no effort was made to determine the degree of saturation of the air immediately surrounding them by the use of an instrument, the advisability of that course not having been suggested early enough to allow suitable arrangements to be made for that purpose, but all the indica- tions were that the saturation of the air was complete. The cover used for the top hive was a flat board several inches wider and onger than the hives, purposely chosen of that s
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