. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE WRIGHT APIARY, where the Eastern New York meeting was held. Large honey house in the middle, house for combs on the left, with a background of basswoods. showed that much heat was lost from the unprotected hive bottom. Beekeepers have repeatedly claimed that excessive insulation is even more detrimental in winter than insuf- ficient insulation, because of the fail- ure of the colony to warm up on bright days. To test this theory,_ a colony was packed in the fall with 16 inches of sawdust on all sides, top and bottom. Temperature records were made
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE WRIGHT APIARY, where the Eastern New York meeting was held. Large honey house in the middle, house for combs on the left, with a background of basswoods. showed that much heat was lost from the unprotected hive bottom. Beekeepers have repeatedly claimed that excessive insulation is even more detrimental in winter than insuf- ficient insulation, because of the fail- ure of the colony to warm up on bright days. To test this theory,_ a colony was packed in the fall with 16 inches of sawdust on all sides, top and bottom. Temperature records were made at frequent intervals ev- ery day throughout the winter and spring. The colony remained in ex- cellent condition in every respect throughout the winter, being little affected by high winds, and after brood rearing began it built up with great rapidity. Then, to continue ob- servations on the effect of insulation on the building up of the colony, the packing was allowed to remain all summer. Except for the impossi- bility of manipulating the colony, it remained in excellent condition. It. seems clear, therefore, that beekeep- ers need not fear detrimental results from abundant insulation at any sea- son of the year. Kansas State Meeting.—The Kan- sas State Beekeepers' Association will hold their annual meeting in To- peka, January 8 and 9. O. A. KEENE, Sec'y. W. JJ. WRIGHT ADDRESSING THE EASTERN NEW YORK MEETING Price Committee of Chicago-North- western Association.—At the conven- tion of the Chicago-Northwestern Beekeepers' Association held in Chi- cago Nov. 30-Dec. 1, the following im- portant resolution was unanimously adopted: Whereas, The committee appointed at the 1916 meeting of this association for the purpose of investigating con- ditions for marketing honey and for recommending to producers a sched- ule of minimum prices for the season 1917, has performed its work to the satisfaction of the association, re- sulting in more fair and more uni- form prices to the prod
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