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Fig. 13. Chart showing lowest temperatures. 



which could be worked out in parts of the South, than to winter 

 bees outdoors without protection and often with one or more 

 supers on, where the snow may often be six inches deep for a week 

 or two in winter. There is no frostless winter in the South until 

 one goes very far south. There are few winters in the South 

 when snow does not fall throughout West Virginia, Virginia, 

 Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and Oklahoma. The writer .has 

 seen snow near Pensacola, Florida, Shreveport, Louisiana, and 

 in Dallas, Texas. The best beekeeping practice is the one which 

 cares for all eventualities. Certainly there may be a wintering 

 system worked out for the South, which will'protect in extremes, 

 and which can be turned to additional advantage in the means. 

 No beekeeper who is a thinker will deny that. 



Honey for Winter. 



There have been very few of the many localities visited by 

 the author, where it is often necessary to feed bees in fall to 

 provide sufficient winter stores. It is our opinion that this is one 



