HOW TO WINTER BEES 



for cleansing flights, and if the winter is pro- 

 longed, are subject to dysentery, whereas the 

 outdoor bees have had several opportunities 

 in which to relieve themselves, and seldom 

 suffer from it. Again, bees wintered indoors 

 require constant care in the matter of receiv- 

 ing proper ventilation and regulation in the 

 matter of temperature, and when set outdoors 

 in the spring suffer from spring dwindling, in 

 case a cold spell should come on after they are 

 set out. They are even destroyed, while bees 

 that were wintered outdoors do not feel the 

 change, as they are in their winter packing 

 and are used to the cold. 



To offset spring dwindling, many a bee- 

 keeper places some extra protection around 

 his bees when he sets them out in spring, and 

 while this is a help, the bees nevertheless suflFer 

 from the contrast when placed outdoors, and 

 spring dwindling is the rule rather than the 

 exception. 



If the truth were known, the real reason why 

 so many beekeepers keep a large number of 



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