Feb. 20, 1902. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



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ends of hives. All of Iheiii witi- left open iis 

 they stood when tit woi'k in Ilic a|>itiry. I 

 niovrd on ii hnidnT-wiiKon wii hniil sprintrH, 

 over a stony I'oaii, ami tliroii^rli a snnill villat^c!. 

 In daylight, het-wee.n (J ami 7 o'eiiK'k p.m. 



I don't advise anyliody, nor idairn lids as 

 the |iro|ier way to handle Ix'cs ; hut I tell yon 

 what I di<l sin'cesslully. Not a pei'stni was 

 stnnj^. noi- any tronl)lc whatever' came fr(»ni 

 tliu ijees. Of course, they came outsider and 

 clustered on the, hives. I wall<<'d ami drove tlui 

 horse (not a vei"y steady one i-ithor.) 



I found the sunn' principle to work in this 

 disc as in handling,' l)oes in hives or hivintr 

 swarms. Wlien tlioi'on;,^liIy alarmed, and 

 tilled witli honey, tlui lices ailcmlcd to their 

 own husiness and troul)lcd nobody, I am satis- 

 tied I could luivc driven for miles with them. 



I can not say that this i)lan will always 

 work. It did that time and season, hetween 

 sprint; and sunnncr. Some new honey was 

 conun;,^ in at. the time. 



Importance of Fresh Air in Bee-Cel- 

 lars. 



It will he remembered that in the winter of 

 1900-01 Editor Koot reported wintering oil 

 eolonies in an inside cellar — a room within a 

 room — with great success. This winter the 

 e.viieriment is repeated on a larger scale, and 

 Mr. Root seems somewhat enthuisastic over it. 

 He also had a cellar constructed at an out- 

 apiary. When it is remembered that he has 

 heretofore been very successful in out-door 

 wintering, and has for the most part been 

 rather an advocate of that kind of wintering, 

 his advocacy of indoor wintering is all the 

 niore striking. He seems somewhat vehement 

 in insisting upon the importance of plenty of 

 pure air, for which belief he no doubt has the 

 very best grounds. He reports: 



There are 200 colonies of them, and they 

 are wintering finely. To all appearances they 

 are doi;ng as well as the 50 colonies did a year 

 ago ; and these, it will be remembered, came 

 through without the loss of a colony, and 

 scarcely any dead bees on the floor. During 

 warm nights, when the air is sultry, we open 

 the door opening into the outer cellar, and 

 just opposite this door is a window leading to 

 the outside. The cool, fresh air pours in all 

 night, and then before daylight comes on the 

 door is closed. We have tried keeping the 

 door shut every night running for three or 

 lour days, but the bees get uneasy and begin 

 to roar. This goes to show that an infusion 

 of fresh air from outdoors and a constant sup- 

 ply of it nil flie time, day and night, from the 

 outer cellar having ten times the cubic capac- 

 ity of the room in which the bees are, is im- 

 portant. 



Yes, indeed, I am becoming more and more 

 convinced that plenty of fresh air in indoor 

 wintering is one of the prime essentials, and 

 variation in temperature is only secondary. 

 Why, the mercury in our bee-room last year, 

 where the bees wintered so perfectly, moved 

 up and down all the way from SS to 60, and 

 noise — there was a constant banging and 

 slamming, and yet you will remember I kept 

 those bees in till about the middle of May. 

 The dead ones had never been swept up, and 

 yet you could almost walk across that cellar 

 without stepping on one. When we remem- 

 bered that it is considered good wintering in- 

 doors, even if the cellar is completely covered 

 with dead bees, the results I have mentioned 

 are all the more remarkable. 



The bees in the out-yard cellar are not do- 

 ing quite so well, for the reason that a street- 

 railway company have two or three times tilled 

 our drain, causing the water to back up. But 

 we are sure of this, that Bingham's idea ot 

 ventilation through a shaft 'if> inches square, 

 going from the roof of the building above, is 

 all right. 



I believe bee-keepers have been making a 

 great mistake in their house bee-cellars by 

 not giving the bees fresh air, and lots of it. 



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