Nov. 17, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



777 



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I endeavored, about a year ago, to 

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 upon their cheapness and the success I 

 have had in their use in wintering my 

 bees on the summer stands. I wish 

 now to speak of the protection from the 

 wind I give the bees in winter. 



I keep about 32 colonies, the hives 

 placed in pairs, four pairs in a row, and 

 four rows 10 feet apart. They occupy 

 a space about 32x40 feet square. I 

 bought 30 pine boards 1x12x16, enough 

 to build a fence 4 feet high around 

 three sides ( I leave the south side open ). 

 This fence I put up temporarily in the 

 fall, using 8-penny nails, but not dri- 

 ving them clear into the boards to the 

 head. The posts are not set in the 

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braced on the inside by driving a peg 

 in the ground and nailing a light 

 brace from it to the top of the posts. 

 The corners are so close that but little 

 bracing is needed, the corners bracing 

 themselves. 



When the warm weather comes in 

 the spring I draw the nails with a claw- 

 hammer and stack the boards and posts 

 away in a protected place. I have used 

 the boards I now have for five winters, 

 and they are yet "just as good as 

 new ". I attribute a good deal of my 

 good success in wintering to this wind- 

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On page SOS, our genial critic, Mr. 

 Hasty, takes notice of the length of 

 time my bees were in the cellar (165 

 days), as reported on page 446. It may 

 be of interest to bee-keepers, in this 

 connection, to know that they were 

 wintered almost entirely on sugar 

 syrup. The preceding year there was 

 no honey-flow after Aug. 1. By the 

 first of September some of the most 

 populous colonies were entirely desti- 

 tute of stores. They were fed an aver- 

 age of 20 pounds of sugar per colony. 

 In the spring I had to feed 5 pounds 

 more per colony. This was barely 

 enough to bring them to the early flow 

 from dandelions, willows, and later on 

 white clover. 



Nine of my 10 colonies wintered per- 

 fectly ; the other one was weak in 

 bees and continued to dwiudle, even 

 losing its queen. Later on I gave it 



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