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Ski'tkmbek, 1918 



FROM THE FIELD OF EXPERIENCE 



scales on a box or adjacent hive for that 

 purpose, and mark the weight at a certain 

 place on each hive. After the weights are 

 determined, it only remains to put the light 

 ones in condition for winter by uniting, by 

 supplying them with the needed frames of 

 honey from the store room, or with sugar 

 syrup. And this holds good for those to 

 be wintered in cellar except that 50 pounds 

 is the standard instead of 65. 



Borodino, N. Y. G. M. Doolittle. 



INEXPENSIVE WINTER CASES 



But They Seem to Protect the Bees and to be Easy 

 to Provide 



My winter cases are composed of any 

 cheap lumber that will hold a nail. The 

 end is made of four pieces, 28 inches long, 

 and one 30 inches, so the front is the 

 highest, and covered with tarred paper or 

 rubberoid. As to length of cases, I general- 

 ly make them about 52 inches long so there 

 will be nearly 8 inches of packing at each 

 end. For a roof or cover I find that two 

 gable covers are the nicest, as they can be 

 used in summer time. For winter I lay an 

 extra piece of tarred paper across the cen- 

 ter to reach over the top of each. When 

 summer comes I stack the cases to one side 

 and put the packing in them for another 

 season; and I save for packing any grass 

 that may be cut. The last hard winter I 



lost only three colonies — one from starva- 

 tion ; the other two had honey, but were 

 affected by dysentery. We had a very hard 

 winter. They were more than 100 days 

 without a flight, and many colonies were 

 affected. I generally winter in two bodies, 

 even if one is only a shallow Danzenbaker 

 extracting body. I also give bottom pro- 

 tection for all hives that stand up from the 

 ground. 



With care, the cases here described should 

 last for years. I have used some of them 

 for eight years, and they are still as good 

 as new. J. B. Holsinger. 



Johnstown, Pa. 



AN INEXPENSIVE PACKING CASE 



How a Kansas Man Has Solved the Problem in 

 His Country of High-priced Lumber 



Out here in Kansas lumber is mighty high 

 — perhaps not higher than in some other 

 places, but high enough so that making the 

 quadrui»le i)acking cases would mean a big 

 expense. Picking up packing boxes that 

 would do is out of the question. When one 

 is "picked up" it is at a price of about $1 

 and then has to be rebuilt. Getting to- 

 gether enough lumber or boxes for my 150 

 colonies of bees seems too big and too ex- 

 pensive a job for me when I have a cheaper 

 way that appears almost as good to me. 



After extrar-ting is over I put a deep or 



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