MANAGING BEES. '23 



RULE III. 



ON VENTILATING THE HIVL. 



Graduate tho bottom board and ventilator 

 at pleasure, by means of the button or other- 

 wise, so as to give them more or less air, as 

 the circumstances may require. 



REMARK S. 



Bees require more air in order to enable 

 them to endure the heat of summer and the 

 severity of winter, than at any other time. 

 If they are kept out in the cold, they need as 

 much air in the winter as in the heat of sum- 

 mer. It is in a mild temperature only, that 

 it is safe to keep them from the pure air. If 

 placed below frost in a dry sand-bank, they 

 seem to need scarcely more than is contained 

 m their hive at the time they are buried, du- 

 ring the whole winter. If kept in a clean, 

 dry cellar, the mouth so contracted as to keep 

 out mice, gives them enough. But if they 

 they are kept in the apiary, there should be a 

 slow current of air constantly pressing in at the 

 bottom and off at the top thro' the ventilator. 



