. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 34 AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER February, a tape for gathering it about the hat safety pin and the upper and lower crown. When the tape is in place cloth treated in the same way. It just stitch it at the center and then is then slipped over the hat the tape while it will gather the cloth equally drawn and tied and it is ready for use. from each side it will not pull through —an occurence which is not agreeable when one is in a THE VEIL OPEN. The veil shown can be made into a small roll and carried readily in the pocket. To make ready for use it is
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 34 AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER February, a tape for gathering it about the hat safety pin and the upper and lower crown. When the tape is in place cloth treated in the same way. It just stitch it at the center and then is then slipped over the hat the tape while it will gather the cloth equally drawn and tied and it is ready for use. from each side it will not pull through —an occurence which is not agreeable when one is in a THE VEIL OPEN. The veil shown can be made into a small roll and carried readily in the pocket. To make ready for use it is unrolled, the two ends lapped an inch or more and fastened with a If made from bronze-wire cloth it is more flexible than from painted cloth and will not rust or crack. The lustre on the bronze wire soon dis- appears or it may be hastened by washing the wire with vinegar or other weak acid. In this veil Mr. Latham has given us all the advantages of the best designed wire veil combined with the convenience of a pocket veil. Providence, R. I. HOW MANY COLONIES SHALL WE WINTER. ALLEN LATHAM. THE GENERAL belief, I have been led to think, among bee- keepers is that one should win- ter a few more colonies than he in- tends to run the next season for sur- plus. There may be some lost in the winter and others so reduced in strength that they cannot be profita- bly got ready for the harvest; hence the notion that it is well to winter extra colonies. I question the policy that is out- lined above, and believe that local conditions should determine the num- ber of colonies that should be win- tered. The bee-keeper who has not solved the wintering problem to the extent that he can winter his bees as well as he can his cows has much yet to learn. I should then, for the prac- tical apiarist, rule out the wintering of extra colonies for the simple pur- pose of making-good winter losses. Probably in most localities one should winter the same number of colonies as he expects to run for surplu
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