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OUT-APIABIES, NO. XIX. 



GETTING READY FOR WINTER QUARTERS. 



TF you do not cellar your bees, the matter of get- 

 fflr ting the out-apiaries ready for winter differs 

 W nothing from the home work. If you cellar 

 "*■ them, there may be a chance to put them in a 

 cellar right where the out-apiary is located; 

 but that is not so very likely. Possibly you may do 

 well to build a cheap cellar or cave, perhaps after 

 Doolittle's plan; only feel your way, for you are 

 not sure that soil and other things are the same 

 with you as with Doolittle. If the bees are to be 

 hauled home you will do much the same as in haul- 

 ing them out in the spring, only more care will be 

 needed to avoid jarring or breaking down the 

 combs, for they are heavier with honey and bees 

 than in the spring, and a break in the fall is worse 

 than in spring, for we want as much quiet in the 

 fall as possible. Manage to have all handling of 

 frames done some time before hauling, if you de- 

 pend on the bees to fasten the frames. You are 

 not so likely to have bad roads in the fall. As soon 

 as frost has finished up fall pasturage, the bees 

 may as well be got home, and at the latest they 

 should be got home in plenty of time to have at 

 least one good tiy before going into the cellar. If 

 the weather is quite cool you may be able to go at 

 anytime of day and shut them in the hives; but 

 the probability is that you will need to go quite 

 early in the morning for your first load, and wait 

 till 4 or 5 o'clock before you can shut up your sec- 

 ond load. If the weather is tolerably warm, you may 

 find it best to fasten up your morning load when 

 you go for your evening load; that is, fasten up in 

 the afternoon twice as many as you can take at one 

 load, and then you needn't be in such a hurry to 

 start early in the morning. After frost in the fall, 

 on a warm day the bees will be flying in good sea- 



son in the morning, but will stop flying compara- 

 tively early in the afternoon, as they probably find 

 nothing to do. If you want to haul three loads in a 

 day, unless it is pretty cool you will not be able to 

 shut up the bees at the time of going for your sec- 

 ond load, and must shut them up in the morning, 

 unless, indeed, you shut up all in the evening. 



In the revised edition of Langstroth on the Hon- 

 ey-Bee, Dadant says: " We usually replace the bot- 

 tom-board by a wire-cloth frame protected by slats. 

 The entrance should never be covered with wire 

 cloth, but should be entirely closed, for the old 

 bees will worry themselves trying to get through it, 

 and it will soon be clogged with dead bees." This 

 probably refers to shipping bees long distances; 

 but if your hives are so constructed that you can 

 easily give them ventilation elsewhere, it may be 

 well to have the entrance closed. Still, I have 

 hauled hundreds of colonies with no ventilation ex- 

 cept wire cloth at the entrance. 



Upon bringing them home, place your hives con- 

 veniently near to the cellar door; and if you are 

 much crowded for room, you can put one hive on 

 top of another. I have sometimes piled them three 

 high. Putting them in pairs also economizes 

 room, and the pairs may be two or three high. If 

 your ground is dry the hives need nothing under 

 them; otherwise it is well to have something to 

 keep the bottom-boards off the ground, if it be 

 nothing more than two sticks of stove-wood under 

 each hive. In setting out the hives in the spring 

 they can be placed the same as they were in the 

 fall— I don't mean each hive in the same place it oc- 

 cupied in the fall, but close together, two or three 

 in a pile, near the cellar. If you use hanging 

 frames, try to avoid all handling of frames for 

 some time before hauling home, and until they are 

 again placed in the out-apiary the following spring. 



I don't need to caution you about being careful to 



