358 WINTERING. 



boards that can be taken off to remove the dead bees in 

 Spring. 



641. After having used some eighty chaff-hives during 

 twenty-five years or more, we find two disadvantages in them : 

 1st. They are heavy and inconvenient to handle, especially 

 when made to accommodate ten large Dadant frames. 2d. As 



Fig. 134. 



INSIDE OF THE CHESHIRE HIVE. 



hSj hives sides with corlt-dust for packing, sc, section case, 's, section. 

 df separators, fn^ foundation. 



they do not allow the heat or cold to pass in and out readily, 

 the bees in these hives may remain in-doors, in occasional 

 warm Winter days, while those of thin-front hives will have 

 a cleansing flight. Thus, in hard Winters, these bees suffer as 

 much from diarrhoea (626-'i'84:) as others, unless the Apiar- 

 ist takes pains to disturb them and make them fly, occasionally, 

 in suitable weather. 



