1901 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



166 



test anything on which writers disagree. 

 And after so testing it will do you no 

 harm to have a disagreeing party tell 

 you that you are "losing prestige, by try- 

 ing to talk or write on subjects about 

 which you are far from being well 

 informed."' 



Borodino. N.Y. 



"A man is not defeated till there is no 

 more fight in him." 



occasional sweeping of the floor to re- 

 move all dead bees. 



I may say that I leave on the propolis 

 quilt but remove the wooden cover, and 

 also, that the temperature in my cellar 

 remains for the whole Winter at about 

 4.5'' Fahr. This method of wintering 

 bees in' our cold, froz.en North, I have 

 found successful. 



Chard, Ont., Nov. 30, 1900. 



WINTERING BEES IN CANADA. 



I!Y W. J. BKOWN. 



ASSUMING that the Fall or Autumn 

 work is complete, and that every 

 colony has ample store (say from 

 twenty-five to thirty fts of good honey) 

 with a good queen, during the later part 

 of October or the fore part of November, 

 I see that my cellar (which is directly 

 underneath my dwelling-house) is prop- 

 erly ventilated, by opening all the win- 

 dows and doors for at least twenty-four 

 hours, to allow the escape of all foul 

 odors; then the windows are closed and 

 darkened. The cellar is 33 ft. by 35 ft.. 

 7 ft. deep, stone walls and earthen floor. 

 There are set four benches, running 

 lengthwise in the cellar, about fifteen 

 inches high. A stove-pipe runs down to 

 within one foot of the floor and connects 

 with the chimney above; this is the ven- 

 tilation for the winter. 



My bee-yard is situated close by the 

 dwelling-house, with an entrance to the 

 cellar from the outside. 



After everything was in readiness I 

 commenced at nine o'clock A. M. on the 

 39th October last, and at three P. M. I 

 had carried in and set on the benches in 

 the cellar, one hundred and four hives 

 of bees. This work was done by myself, 

 alone, and my bees nicely stored away in 

 six hours time for their long nap, there 

 to remain until towards the middle of 

 April next. 



This constitutes the Winters work 

 with the bees here, except an occasional 

 visit to see that no hives get clogged up 

 at the entrance with dead bees, and an 



"He who works hard and uses all of a 

 small opportunity will surpass the man 

 who partly neglects a great one." 



■STIMULATIVE FEEDING- POLLEN 

 SUBSTITUTES ETC. 



BY ADRIAN GETAZ. 



IN a previous contribution I spoke of 

 feeding milk to bees in the Spring 

 for stimulative feeding {Revue In- 

 ternationale). I forgot to say that the 

 article had been translated from the 

 German and was from Dr. Dzierzon 

 himself . 



By the way, Dr. Dzierzon has reached 

 his ninetieth year recently. His birthday 

 was celebrated in Germany in a way 

 showing the appreciation of the German 

 bee-keepers. 



Mr. Daussy, instead of milk uses flour 

 —mixes it with the honey fed early in 

 the Spring. The proportions are not 

 stated. 



While on the subject it might be well 

 to make a few remarks: 



In the first place it seems evident to 

 me that the supply of pollen kept over 

 the Winter must soon give out in the 

 Spring, when breeding begins in earnest, 

 and that in many cases brood-rearing 

 has been probably curtailed from lack 

 of pollen or some substitute. Feeding 

 flour may answer sometimes, but not 

 always, from the fact that the weather 

 is too often unfavorable, either too cold 

 or too rainy for the bees to fly. 



Whether stimulative feeding is profit- 

 able or not must depend chiefly on the 

 climate. In Northern latitudes the 

 Spring always opens at once and quite 



