. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. VOL. II. FLINT, MICHI&M. SEPTEllBER 10. 1889. KO. Out-Door WinteringâSuccess Largely a Question of LocalityâThin Packing Pref- erableâSeveral Excellent Ideas. Migratory Bee-Keeping. JAMES HEJJJJUN. NOW IF YOCJ are goiu'g to ^ist upon exhausting, in hu advaucc editorial, every subject yuu bring up for the IvEViEW, leaving nothing for ns to do but to agree with tiie most of it and i)ick with the rest, you must expect to get just what you advertise for. Now I will try Lo tlo your readers, yourself and myself a little good by dissenting from yo
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. VOL. II. FLINT, MICHI&M. SEPTEllBER 10. 1889. KO. Out-Door WinteringâSuccess Largely a Question of LocalityâThin Packing Pref- erableâSeveral Excellent Ideas. Migratory Bee-Keeping. JAMES HEJJJJUN. NOW IF YOCJ are goiu'g to ^ist upon exhausting, in hu advaucc editorial, every subject yuu bring up for the IvEViEW, leaving nothing for ns to do but to agree with tiie most of it and i)ick with the rest, you must expect to get just what you advertise for. Now I will try Lo tlo your readers, yourself and myself a little good by dissenting from your leader wherever my exi)erience has caused me to believe ditfereutly. You think some bee-keepers, from some difference of location or mauage;neut. win- ter bees in the oi>en air with more success than otliers. I thaik tlie lirst part of that clause all right, but 1 fully believe there is little in the management ; it there were, a quarter of a century spent iufreely exchaiig- iug ideas and methods would have reduced ii to a common knowledge. But you are just right about its being a question of loca- tion. Like yourself. I have learned to never at- tempt the wintering of bees without protec- tion. When they are packed in wintering boxe-^, I have found out-door wiuterijig best //â //(,' (rrullici- is not fiio .srri're. When it is, ihe cellar is be^t. \Vhat we most need, is to know what the coming winter is going to be, and that we cannot tell until science has fur- th;^r progressed. As your readers well know, bee-diarrhijea is the one great cause of our winter losses. And 1 believe that many of them further kuow that the consumption of pollen jirodu- ce- til :t disease : and, as low tempei-ature is Ihe mail'cause of pollen consumi)tion, and diinpiiess produces an e<iuivalent to a hnv iviaperature, your leader is right to the I'ouit just the same. Certainly, cleansing ihu'lits remove the trouble as fast as it accu- mulates, provided they occur frequently ( iiiiugh. Now
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