18 Farmers’ Bulletin 1215. 
Outdoor wintering is preferable in the southern part of the clover 
region. For detailed methods of this work the reader is referred to 
Farmers’ Bulletin 1012. The quadruple packing case (fig. 6), de- 
scribed in this bulletin, is one of the best for this region. The time 
for packing (fig. 4) and unpacking the bees and the amount of 
packing material necessary for good results vary considerably 
throughout the region, definite directions being found in the bulletin 
just referred to. Early packing is important in conserving the vitality 
of the bees that are to start the work of brood-rearing the following 
spring. It is especially necessary that the hives be protected from 
wind and that the entrances to the packed hives be reduced during 
cold weather as described in the bulletin on outdoor wintering. 
The bees should be wintered in two hive-bodies, just as was de- 
scribed for the late summer (p. 16). It is not safe in this region to 
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put bees into winter quarters outdoors on less than 45 pounds of 
stores, for while considerable nectar may come in during the early 
spring, occasionally this does not happen in this region, and it is 
necessary that the beekeper leave the amount specified in order to 
insure the proper building up of the colony after March 1. It is 
much safer to leave the entire amount all winter than it is to give 
more before the time of unpacking in May. 
SPRING CARE. 
If the bees have been wintered in a cellar in single hive-bodies, as 
is customary, they should be given the second hive-body contain- 
ing the additional honey not more than four weeks after their 
removal from the cellar. If the lower hive-body has scant stores the 
supply of honey should be given as soon as they are put out of the 
cellar. Unless stores are needed the cover should not be removed 
until the second hive-body is added, since the bees will not at this 
