. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. h e (5)ee- eepeps ' pleVieli A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to tl^e Interests of Hoqey Producers. $L00 A YEAR. W. z. HDTCHiKSON, Editor and Proprietor. VOL X. FLINT. MICHIGAN, APR, 10, 1897. NO 4, AV^ork at ]VEicliigan's Experimeiital ^piarv. K. L. TAYLOK, AI'IAKIST. HIGH TEMPEBATUBE IN CELLAE WINTERING. :'(. TDED by the i"l unusually mild winter, and iiy putting a large number of strong colonies in u^y bee cellar, I have been enabled to some extent to test the effect of a hiijh cellar tem- jierature for win- tering bees. I was the more resigned to the r
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. h e (5)ee- eepeps ' pleVieli A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to tl^e Interests of Hoqey Producers. $L00 A YEAR. W. z. HDTCHiKSON, Editor and Proprietor. VOL X. FLINT. MICHIGAN, APR, 10, 1897. NO 4, AV^ork at ]VEicliigan's Experimeiital ^piarv. K. L. TAYLOK, AI'IAKIST. HIGH TEMPEBATUBE IN CELLAE WINTERING. :'(. TDED by the i"l unusually mild winter, and iiy putting a large number of strong colonies in u^y bee cellar, I have been enabled to some extent to test the effect of a hiijh cellar tem- jierature for win- tering bees. I was the more resigned to the risk supposed to be incurred by making such an experi- ment on account of a bt lief that a high tem- perature induces conditions that aid the bees in avoiding much of tin- ill effects of the com- mon winter diseaec, the advent of which was anticipated on account »f the large amount of fruit juices which \\as gathered during last fall by the bees. 1 succeeded beyond my expectations, indet I, beyond my desires, in securing a high ten;lerature, for on sev- eral occasions it was with difficulty that I. kept it down to r>0 by opening the outside door during the night. Even with this free ventilation it very seldom went below 45°, and within a few hours it was back to .")0°. For a considerable part of the time the thermometer stood a little above .^0 but for the greater part of the time at from 48 to 50'. The bees were put into the cellar compar- atively early—from the .5th to the 18th of November. There were one hundred and eighty colonies mostly hfavy and strong. There were about tw^ity oii L. frames, twenty or thirty in single sections of the Heddon hive and the rest in H^^ddon hives of two sections. All except those in single section H. hives were stored in the cellar without bottom boards. Notwithstanding the high temperature the bees remained as quiet as is usual with the temperature i>'' to S lower. They were also free from a' y un- usual appearance of the winte
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