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Dr. Miller — I don't believe that this is a matter of vital 

 importance and I hope we will not take up time with it, but 

 if you are going on with it I want to say what I think about 

 it is, a single bee will freeze — I think no one disputes that; 

 two bees put together will freeze if it is cold enough and the 

 cold continued long enough ; so will three or four ; and there 

 comes a point somewhere where Mr. Abbott will tell you they 

 don't freeze, they starve. If you have a small cluster that 



Vice-President Mes. N. L. Stow. 



small cluster will freeze, and before we get to the place 

 where Mr. Abbott says they starve, they still will die, whether 

 it is from freezing or from starvation, or whatever it may be. 

 But here is the point. You put them down to 40 degrees be- 

 low zero, or put them down to the point where they do not 

 stir, and I think you will get a point, and I don't believe the 

 bees will move at that even if there is honey above them. 

 They will wait until it gets a little bit warmer before they 

 will break cluster to get anything fresh. If you hold them 



