HOW TO WINTER BEES 



good waterproof paper, and in many cases 

 the bees winter remarkably well, but if you 

 want to be absolutely certain of wintering 

 your bees successfully, even in Canada, adopt 

 *the following plan used by the author, who 

 tried and discarded long ago as unsatisfactory 

 most of the methods referred to above. 



For each hive, I have a large winter case 

 or nearly square box made of l inch 

 board, which is by inside measurement five 

 inches wider all around than the hive body, 

 and six inches deeper. This is a perfectly 

 plain box without bottom or lid, but at its 

 bottom edges I have some J inch thick 

 strips that run in at all sides at right angles 

 from the sides and which permit of the case 

 being slid down over the body of the hive 

 with about J inch space all around. The 

 lid of the hive must be removed to permit 

 of this case going down around the hive. On 

 each side of the bottom board of the hive I 

 have a cleat running its entire length from 

 front to back, to act as a rest for the winter 

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