100 HANDY BOOK OF BEES. 



These are simply made, by tying one end of a bunch of 

 straight or well-comhed straw with tarred string, dipping 

 them in water before placing them on the hives, hooping 

 them on, and then clipping them neatly. When put on 

 wet, they set, and stiffen to fit, and may be lifted off and 

 on like a man's hat. When well made they last two years. 

 As hives, out of doors, cannot be kept too warm in winter, 

 the reader will, in another place, be urged to protect his 

 bees from the cold of the winter storms, by giving them 

 not only a good outer covering, but plenty of under 

 flannels. 



Thousands of hives are starved to death for want of 

 food, and thousands more for want of sufficient winter, 

 covering. 



