. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 409 of large hives, with glass on both sides, will enable the beginner to learn very rapidly as it places everything under the eye of the apiarist, just as it exists in a regular colony so that many mysteries are explained. The busy months run from first of February to last'of October, though it is chiefly confined to March, April and May. Adaptation of Southern Georgia to bees, though there has been great success in the North, yet it can be carried to greater perfec- tion here than there, if we will but acquaint ourselves with it here as they do ther
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 409 of large hives, with glass on both sides, will enable the beginner to learn very rapidly as it places everything under the eye of the apiarist, just as it exists in a regular colony so that many mysteries are explained. The busy months run from first of February to last'of October, though it is chiefly confined to March, April and May. Adaptation of Southern Georgia to bees, though there has been great success in the North, yet it can be carried to greater perfec- tion here than there, if we will but acquaint ourselves with it here as they do there. In this section, bees gather pollen and honey from the first of February to last of October, leaving but three months in which to be compelled to remain in winter quar- ters, and during these three months scarcely ten days ever pass without at least a few hours of the day in which they can take flight, which is a great desideratum to their health. Our bees remain all winter on their summer stands, the shelter that wards off the summer's sun and April showers is suf- ficient for winter's blasts, and we have only to make the entrance very small to exclude cold and mice and put on the honey boards, or just as well, apiece of osnaburgs laid on top of the frames of the lower story. From all accounts, we have no more moths here than in the North, besides they can be fully guarded against, as I will at some future time explain. Now in higher latitudes, they must be put into close quarters during winter ; their seasons are not more than half as long as ours, and almost all the honey producing trees that flourish there can be made to flourish here. Besides, it not unfrequently occurs, the evils incident to winter there often prove the ruin of large apiaries, while here the bee is perfectly healthy, for I have never had a colony destroyed by dysentery yet, although it frequently occurs in colder climates. Translated from the German. The Prog as a Bee Enemy. The honey bee like every li
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