A NEW TYPE OF WINTER CASE. 



Below the packed hive is an empty box having a vertical entrance instead 

 of the usual horizontal one, and a series of slots communicating 

 with the hive above. 



drawn in at the opposite end; and I thought 

 how unnatural it all was compared to the 

 vertical slot in a tree, where natural circula- 

 tion of air invariably exists by reason of 

 the warmer air going out at the upper end 

 of the slot, and the cooler entering the lower 

 end, thus saving to the bees the trouble of 

 fanning. 



This thought first led me to the vertical 

 tandem hive, the lower one of which is 

 single-walled, emjDty, and provided with the 

 vei-y necessary vertically disposed entrance 

 which always insures at least some circula- 

 tion of air. This lower hive is also painted 

 black, and designed to absorb all the heat 

 possible from the sun's rays. The vertical 

 entrance extends upward somewhat beyond 

 the center of the hive, performing not only 

 the function of air circulation, but that of 

 providing means of avoiding complete 

 '' bloekation " by snow, which is no small 

 item. 



Upon this empty hive is placed a large 

 simple plain box, about three or four inches 

 larger all around than a hive, and having a 

 bottom to cover completely the empty hive 

 below. 



In this bottom adjacent either side, and 

 so positioned as to occur within the walls of 

 the hives both below and above, is formed 

 a long narrow slot or beeway, these slots 

 being preferably just the proper width for 

 a bee to pass through comfortably. 



The hive containing the colony of bees is 

 placed within the large box directly over 

 the empty hive below, and the space all 

 around the hive within the box is filled with 

 any convenient form of packing, such as 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



shavings, dried leaves, 

 or the like, there be- 

 ing sufficient space to 

 put four or five inches 

 of the packing directly 

 above or on top of the 

 hive. The cover may 

 be of any desired form 

 — preferably a tele- 

 scopic water - tight 

 wooden one. 



Thus we have our 

 colony of bees in a 

 comfortable packed 

 hive with a positive 

 supply of fresh air 

 entering the hive upon 

 either side of the colo- 

 ny, and not up against 

 the lowermost bees in 

 the cluster, and also 

 providing winter quar- 

 ters with all the bene- 

 fits and advantages of 

 the single-walled hive for absorbing and 

 radiating the heat of the sun to the bees, 

 without any of the disadvantages that the 

 single-walled hive otherwise carries. 



The circulation of air within the hive 

 invariably changes once a day on account 

 of the heat of the sun being on one side of 



C. Woodward, Wyandotte, Mich., standing by a 



colony of bees which, during 1913, filled 10 



suiJers of 24 sections each, without 



swarming. 



