THE PRODUCTION OF EXTRACTED HONEY* 

 R. H. HOLTERMANN, BeANTFOKD, OnTARIO, CanADA. 



In the successful management of bees we may well draw a circle 

 and begin at the desired point and by the time we reach the 

 completion of the story we shall reach the point at which we began. 

 For the successful production of either extracted or comb honey, 

 the jDroper wintering of the bees is an important factor. 



For many years I made a practice of wintering bees in the 

 cellar, which consisted of a building well constructed and espe- 

 cially designed for the purpose — costing $1,000. 



For three seasons, however, all of my bees have been wintered 

 outside; four colonies being placed in outer cases packed with 

 forest leaves and a fence eight feet high being put about an 

 apiary forty to fifty feet long and of the same width, and I am 

 of the opinion that there are many beekeepers at present wintering 

 their bees in cellars who could winter them with success outdoors. 

 In outside wintering one can leave them earlier in the fall of the 

 year and return to them later in the spring, and they require less 

 care outside than in the cellar. The bees will also be packed and 

 protected during the spring when those wintered in the cellar often 

 suffer from cold and backward weather, after they have been 

 placed on their summer stands, and for that short time it does 

 not pay, or at least it is not considered that it pays, to pack them. 



I have adopted a twelve-frame Langstroth hive and to such an 

 extent am I an advocate of this hive that last season I took over 

 one hundred colonies out of ten-frame Langstroth hives and put 

 them in the twelve-frame. By adopting this hive in almost every 

 case the brood can all be put into one hive body ; this entails much 

 less work than if two bodies contain brood. 



The bees I prefer to all others are Carniolans. Give them 

 plenty of entrance room, ventilation, shade and storage room 

 and swarming can be controlled, but after carefully weighing all 

 the evidences from reliable sources I have reluctantly come to the 



* Given at New York State Beekeepers' Convention, Rochester, N. Y., December 

 1912. 



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