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forth places on his hive, then placed it on top of the hive and 

 put a couple of screws in each end of it. 



J. W. Murray: In regard to this question of wintering. 

 Now I once left them out and covered them with snow; as some 

 recommend, and lost every hive. In the fall I put my bees in 

 the cellar. Now in regard to this matter of covering. For years 

 I have used nothing but my thin f inch honey board, and I do 

 not want to know any other way. As for this matter of raising 

 them up, it is one of the best things I ever adopted. Put un- 

 der the hive a frame two inches high, then across the front is 

 placed common mosquito netting one inch wide and the whole 

 width of the front; this leaves a space under there, and I can 

 raise my hives right up and clean them out when I please. 

 Now in regard to watering bees. I want to give my bees 

 water in the spring just as soon as they begin to stir about, 

 they want water. 



C. Thielmann: My bees used to get noisy in winter until of 

 late years, I found that whenever they got noisy in the spring 

 I would give them ice instead of water and they would quiet 

 down and be all right, so I made up my mind that it was the 

 thirst that made them noisy. 



Mr. Mendenhall: I put my bees in the cellar four or five 

 tiers high, but the whole front of the hive is open and I go 

 down with a lantern every two or three days, and if I see any 

 dead bees I take a stick and poke them all out. I hardly ever 

 see any dead bees. I have it plastered overhead and on the 

 side. The last two winters I have not lost a hive of bees. 



Mr. Holmberg: I take off the cover and I have always had suc- 

 cess in wintering bees. When the bees become noisy in the 

 spring I give them ice, because we could not get any snow. I have 

 always wintered them with great success. 



M. Cutler: In regard to the time of putting bees in the 

 cellar. "What time do you do that? I put mine in the cellar 

 this fall the first cold snap. 



Mr. Holmberg: When the warm weather is over and a cold 

 spell comes, about the 20th of November. Last year I had 

 some colonies out all winter and they came out the best of all; 

 I have some colonies out now. and last Sunday they were out 

 just as in the summer time. 



Pres. Wilcox: As to the proper time to put them in, I was 

 forcibly struck last winter with the remark of Prof. McLean: 

 ' 'Always put them in a little too early and take them out a lit- 

 tle too late." 



