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and we shall not jijo to the trouble of mov- 

 ing them hack and fortli. I could not 

 think of heintj guilty of digging a cellar 

 now, in September, in clear clav ground 

 and propose to drv it even with fire be- 

 for the time for wintering is here, so I 

 shall try, what is, to me, a new process. 

 I shall put them in the shanty, 12 x 18, 

 S feet to the ceiling, and bank the house 

 with dirt, to a height of five feet. 1 have 

 a ventilator eight inches square in the 

 center of the ceiling, passing through the 

 roof. The ceiling is covered with four 

 inches of dry planer shavings to keep out 

 cold and prevent the sun from warming 

 it up too early in the spring, in case we 

 should get a number of warm days in suc- 

 cession in Fetjruary as we sometimes do. 

 The high banking on the outside was 

 done for tlie same purpose, being now 

 practically a cellar above ground with a 

 chance of having it dry. Should the 

 temperature rise too high, in spile of 

 the.se precautions, I shall introduce some 

 ice on one side to ke<p the bees cool 

 enough to prevent thc-m from cr.iwling 

 out of the hives, which they will do when 

 too warm. I shall report to you of my 

 success ill the spring 



Chippe\v.\ F.\i,ls, Wis., Oct. i, 1901. 



[Vou will notice that the above article 

 was written a year ago, but it arrived too 

 late to be used in time for some of the 

 suggestions to be put in practice until an- 

 other year, for that reason it was with- 

 held until now. We can now have the 

 satisfaction of knowing how the bees 



wintered. March r5, 1902, Mr. Nussle 

 wrote as follows — Ed.] 



Dear Sir, I took out our bees a few days 

 ago, and can tell you that you never saw 

 any bees winter better belter. I lost one 

 very small swarm out of 159, and that one 

 was marked (00, No good. Extra light. 

 Seems to be queenless. ) I did not have 

 '2 bushel of dead bees from the whole 

 159 swarms, and no dead bees on any of 

 the bottom-boards. Everything just as 

 clean and sweet as in swarming time. I 

 could scarcely believe it my.self. 



The coldest weather outside, on self- 

 registering thermometer, was 34°. In- 

 side on the wall, 29° above zero. Maxi- 

 nmm, 70°, where it had gone when I took 

 them out on the 1 ^th of March. That 

 could have been prevented had I had lime. 



I had seen them a number of limes dur- 

 ing the winter, and there was always a 

 liille cluster on the outside of each hive. 

 It was the most perfect wintering I ever 

 heard of. 



I forgot to lell you, in inv artirlf. ihat 

 the ventilator went only into the lop siory, 

 or attic, where the exchange of air took 

 place very gradually, as otherwise it 

 would have cooled the repository too sm<1- 

 denlv in extremely cold weather. INly 

 hives are just as full of bees and honey 

 as in a honey flow. The bees use<lan ex- 

 trordinarily small quantity of winter food. 



Some hives weighing now over 60 ll)s., 

 and just as clean and sweet as in swarm- 

 ing time. 



Respectfully, 



E. E. Nussle M. D. 



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Mr. .\hhoTT has finally withdrawn his 

 claim as General Manager, and paid over 

 to the Secretary the money that was in 

 his hands, less his expenses. 



The Chicago-Northwestkkn Bee 

 Keepers' Associ.^tion will hold its an- 



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nual convention December 3rd and 4th, 

 attheBriggs House in Chicago. There 

 will be reduced railroad rates. This is 

 one of the best conventions of the coun- 

 try. If not next to the National, it is 

 close to it. I believe that there were 

 about 150 present at the last convention. 



