. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 669 Where the bees are depended upon to keep up the temperature of the place they are in during very cold weather, it is very liable to be too warm during a mild spell in late winter or early spring, which causes more trouble in cellar- wintering than all else combined, as the bees will become uneasy and start brood- rearing at such times in spite of the opening of doors and windows at night, carrying in ice, etc., which can be done, besides when bees must "burn" honey to warm their hives and the room they decaying bees
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 669 Where the bees are depended upon to keep up the temperature of the place they are in during very cold weather, it is very liable to be too warm during a mild spell in late winter or early spring, which causes more trouble in cellar- wintering than all else combined, as the bees will become uneasy and start brood- rearing at such times in spite of the opening of doors and windows at night, carrying in ice, etc., which can be done, besides when bees must "burn" honey to warm their hives and the room they decaying bees is very offensive to me, whether offensive to the bees or not. To overcome this I evenly scatter a two bushel bag of sawdust over the floor every month, which not only keeps down all offensive smell, and prevents crushing the dead bees on the floor, but absorbs much of the moisture thrown off the bees as well. Since using the sawdust as above, I can say that I am perfectly satisfied with my cellar.—Review. Borodino, N. Y., Oct. 4, Outside View of Doolittle's Bee-Cellar. are in, it causes a great loss of stores and vitality. Mr. Hutchinson would not have the floor of the bee-cellar cemented. Neither would I; but there are bees dying of old age all the while, in any colony, and where many colonies are wintered in any cellar, these old bees coming out on the cellar-bottom to die, as they always do with the above temperature, make the bottom of the cellar very unpleasant to walk on, besides the foul smell from When Renewing your sub- scription to the Bee Journal, please send the names of those around you who have bees, and we will send them free sample copies. Then afterward you can get them as new subscribers, for which work we offer some excellent premiums in each number of the Journal. While thus helping yourselves, you will also be helping others. Why not begin now ?. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enh
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