. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. Tb e (4)ee- eepeps' pev^ielo A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to tl^e Interests of Hor|eL) Producers. $L00 A YEAR. W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. IX, FLINT, MICHIGAN, MAY 10. 1896. NO. 5. Work at IVIicliigaii's Experirneiital ^piarv. K. L. TAYLOR, @ LESSONS IN WINTERING. iNE of the ex- p e r i 111 e 111 s made during the past winter was planned for the purpose of bring- ing out as prom- inently as pof^si- V)le the compar- ative advantages of wintering bees in the cellar and out of doors with- out protection. In addition to that the sam
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. Tb e (4)ee- eepeps' pev^ielo A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to tl^e Interests of Hor|eL) Producers. $L00 A YEAR. W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. IX, FLINT, MICHIGAN, MAY 10. 1896. NO. 5. Work at IVIicliigaii's Experirneiital ^piarv. K. L. TAYLOR, @ LESSONS IN WINTERING. iNE of the ex- p e r i 111 e 111 s made during the past winter was planned for the purpose of bring- ing out as prom- inently as pof^si- V)le the compar- ative advantages of wintering bees in the cellar and out of doors with- out protection. In addition to that the same experiment was madetoseive another purpose. A bee keeper of long experience advised me that bees would winter well without other protection if placed against the south side of a building where the sun does double duty. I confess that influenced by former experience I had a strong lean- ing to that opinion myself. Accordingly I selected five colonies on the whole in every respect better than the average except that two were in eight frame Langstroth hives ina.;ead of Heddon hives in which all the others destined to till the out door part of theexpeiiment were. These were placed about three feet up from the ground against the south side of my honey house and barn which extended beyond them on either side about twenty five-feet. These bees flew out at rather frequent in- tervals during the winter. On two or three occasions when the air was still and the sun bright they came out about the hives with the thimometer at so low a point in the shade as;5i)% apparently without loss of bees. S >metimes surrounding objects were spotted slightly. Nevertheless both the colonies in Lmgstroth hives died about the middle of March and one of those in Heddon hives early in April, leaving plenty of stores and showing moderate evidence of dysentery. The two other colonies came through in good condition every way. This raises the question whether it is true that frequent flights prevent disastr
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