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that we do not believe that a colony can 

 have a hive as full as mentioned above, 

 and be strong, as the bees must of neces- 

 sity have filled this space during the 

 honey-flow, and there is usually about 

 two months between that date and the 

 opening of cold weather in which they 

 breed more or less to keep up numbers. 

 Bees in very shallow frames, with us, do 

 not winter so well as in large ones, as a 

 rule, and the fact that " they have win- 

 tered well " is not an evidence that they 

 winter as well as in the deeper ones. 



R. L.Taylor — 1. The words "season" 

 and " readily " are altogether too elastic 

 terms to warrant one in giving a definite 

 answer. As bees can move lengthwise 

 of the combs without much difficulty at 

 almost any time during winter, I venture 

 to say yes. 2. No. 



Dr. C. C. Miller— 1. It is hard to tell. 

 It would make a big difference whether 

 " the season enables " them to fly weekly 

 or be confined months. The thickness 

 of the combs would also make another 

 difference. 2. If the cluster never 

 moves lengthwise in severe weather, and 

 does move upward, then there may be a 

 decided difference. 



G. W. Demaree — 1. That is a very in- 

 definite way of measuring food-supply. 

 A colony will occupy three or four times 

 as much space on a warm day as they 

 will on a cold day. If the brood-nest is 

 large enough to accommodate (both in 

 cold and warm weather) a fair-sized col- 

 ony, and the combs are ?.i full of good 

 honey, the bees will be quite safe. 



J. M. Hambaugh — In long, continuous 

 cold bees would not be able to change 

 cluster sidewise, where, if there was an 

 abundance of honey directly above the 

 cluster, they can easily move upwards, 

 hence the advantage of deep over shal- 

 low frames in a cold climate. Much de- 

 pends, however, as to your bees' require- 

 ments in the shallow system you de- 

 scribe. 



Eev. E. T. Abbott— 1. That would de- 

 pend upon the size of the colony and 

 the length of the cold spell. The colony 

 cannot move lengthwise in very cold 

 weather. The cluster moves up, not 

 Icngttiwlse. 2. If there is not enough 

 honey within and above the cluster to 

 take the bees through the cold spell, 

 they will die of starvation. Your idea 

 agrees very much with my experience. 



Allen Pringle — 1. I am not sure that 

 I understand your meaning in the first 

 query, but I take it that you mean this : 

 Is there sufficient honey or stores in the 

 amount of comb the bees cover when 

 they cluster to do them till spring, or 

 such time as the temperature enables 

 them to move readily? It is quite im- 

 possible to answer this question briefly, 

 or without taking into consideration 

 several conditions. If the bees are in a 

 repository of proper temperature with 

 other conditions right, and the comb is 

 "four-fifths filled with honey," they 

 would very likely have enough without 

 moving till the middle or end of Feb- 

 ruary. If, on the other hand, they are 

 wintered outside, and not very well pro- 

 tected, they would doubtless have occa- 

 sion to move for food before half that 

 time was up. If wintered outside and 

 protected by packing, etc., as they ought 

 to be, so that the temperature inside the 

 hive is about right, the same as in the 

 cellar, then they would probably have 

 enough to do tliem as long as though 

 they were in a repository as above. 

 Don't you see that your phrase, " until 



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