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A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



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 W. Z. HOTCHINSOK. Editor and ProDrietoi, 



VOL. XVI. FLINT, MICHIGAN, APRIL 10, 1905. NO. 4. 



WARM, DRY CELLAR WILL 

 ALLOW PLENTY VENTILA- 

 TION. BY T. F. BINGHAM. 



Friend Ilutcliinson: 1 write because 

 Mr. Barber, in the last Review, took 

 such a decided stand against fresh air 

 in winter repositories. I am unable 

 to see how fresh air should be of such 

 baneful influence. 



But 3Ir, Barber has the advantage 

 of me, because he has tried it twenty 

 years; and. of course. l)elieves it was 

 ^he fresh ah- that killed his roaring 

 bees. To a bee-keeper in Michigan it 

 would appear to be the lack of fresh 

 air that caused them to roar. 



Of course, we young bee-keepers 

 can not cite our long experience, but 

 we can ask that such results be traced 

 back, to see if some other cause or 

 treatment is not the real cause, while 

 the apparent deductions are only pre- 

 sumptions. I would ask if the large 

 bee-keepers referred to were ever able 

 to winter their bees in such cellars 

 safely until they took up the plan of 

 feeding graiuilated sugar syrup, about 

 seven pounds to each colony, just be- 

 fore putting them into the cellars? It 

 is of value to bee-keepers to know 

 the truth, or facts. 



The pre-eminent success of Mr. Bar- 

 ber's near neighbor, who wintered blO 

 colonies in a house-cellar, obtained 10,- 

 000 sections, together with 1,500 

 pounds of extracted, and 90 colonies 

 increase, after losing nine bj^ light- 

 ning, soinids well for the abundant 

 fresh air that is always present in 

 house-cellars. Either the young man, 

 or the cellar, or both, made a fine 

 record. 



It will be Avell to keep one's 

 eye on such a man. The escape from 

 loss by lightning, and the bee-cellars 

 of his neighbors, shows rare gifts 

 Avhioh may be of great service to bee- 

 k. epers. 



Bee-keepers long in the pursuit 

 sometimes have sup])ositious which 

 have grown rapidly and fixedly as 

 the years passed on. A ti'adition is 

 not necessarily advance truth. Not 

 more likely than that the letting of 

 fresh air into the cellars is a step 

 backward. 



BEES DO NOT ROAR, INDOORS OR OUT, IF 

 THE AIR IS PURE. 



The object that I have in writing 

 this article is to call attention to the 

 f.ict that liees do not roar when In the 

 open air at 50 degrees. Neither do 



