. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 189', THE AMERICA^ BEE JOURNAL. 19 all have plenty I do not take out any, oven though some colo- nies have as high as 40 to "iO pounds. If any lack in stores, then I take from those colonies having more than is needed, to supply the deficiency in others. A Hoffman frame filled full, vphen spaced as above given, will hold not far from six pounds ; that would be 12 pounds for the two outside combs. The next two would contain about four and one-half pounds each, or nine pounds, while the remaining four, at say two pounds each, would be eight pounds,
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 189', THE AMERICA^ BEE JOURNAL. 19 all have plenty I do not take out any, oven though some colo- nies have as high as 40 to "iO pounds. If any lack in stores, then I take from those colonies having more than is needed, to supply the deficiency in others. A Hoffman frame filled full, vphen spaced as above given, will hold not far from six pounds ; that would be 12 pounds for the two outside combs. The next two would contain about four and one-half pounds each, or nine pounds, while the remaining four, at say two pounds each, would be eight pounds, this making about 2ii pounds in all, which is four pounds more than the highest amount I think is needed for out-door wintering. BEES PACKT FOR WINTEK OUTDOORS. QuES.—"The hives are single-walled and set on a rack about IS inches from the ground in a fence corner. The fence is six feet high and tight. I have left the super on and a cushion of planer shavings fills this super. I have packt all around the hives and between them with leaves, except the front. The top and sides are boarded up so as to keep all dry during the winter. Is this as good as chaff-packing would be?' Ass.—I should say that my correspondent's bees were pretty well fixt for winter, and probably will winter nearly, if not quite, as well as if in chaff hives. Why I say, " if not quite," is that the front of the hives have no packing, as will be noticed. Where hives face the south, as I think all hives should, there being no packing on the south side of the hive, every time the sun shines during the winter it will heat up the front side of the hives, this causing the bees to break cluster and roam along the inside of the warmed up hive, while many bees will be enticed out through this means, to perish in the cold which they will encounter outside as soon as they take wing. This will cause the loss of many bees during the sun- shiny days of winter, providing the breaking of the cluster often,
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