and its Economic Management. II 
their critical position, soon arrive at an excited condition, 
the temperature goes up rapidly, the cluster expands, 
and the lately unapproachable stores are within reach. But 
the instinct of self-preservation does not allow them to 
count thé cost—the tremendous discount thus made upon 
their vital energies ; neither can they avoid the fouling of 
their once clean, sweet smelling home. 
Should a warm day soon follow this untoward excite- 
ment, the after effects are to a certain extent modified, as 
a good cleansing flight can be taken ; but when the cold 
still continues, the bees never again being able to regain 
their former state of semi-hibernation, drag out their 
existence wandering aimlessly about, and die at a rapid 
rate, each day adding to the accumulating filth of the hive. 
Prevention. 
This form of semi-starvation, with its possible conse- 
quences, is to be avoided by seeing that every hive has 
heavily stored combs of good sealed food to winter on. 
A stock, even if already partly stored, if fed with ten or 
twelve pounds of thick warm syrup, rapidly, towards the 
end of September will store such food in the immediate 
vicinity of the ‘cluster, and will stand well, until the 
following Spring is warm enough for the bees to move 
freely about the hive. Dysentery will probably never 
follow after such a provision has been made, unless 
through carelessness or some other exciting cause, such as 
a choked entrance, sour, watery food, or the other extreme 
—granulated stores. 
Another Item 
of considerable importance as a preventative, is the adoption 
of a large frame, when a greater store of food will always 
be found within reach of a more compact cluster. In a 
semi-hibernating condition, during cold weather a cluster 
