20 WINTERING BEES 



All the tenement hives here shown are made up of cheap 

 lumber. The panels are cleated, and held together by hooks 

 or screws. As soon as the winter is over, and settled warm 

 weather has come, the packing is removed and the panels 

 taken down and laid away JEor the season.. The Greiner 

 method of wintering contemplates the plan of rernoving the 



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5U^\/nER POSITION 



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SHIFTED READY FOR SHE05 



PACKED IN SHEDS 

 Greiner's arrangement of hives before and after putting in winter -cases. 



hives from their summer position to the winter position, so 

 that they can be covered by the tenement sheds. The meth- 

 od of making that shift Mr. Greiner explains as follows : 



To explain fully the proper way of moving bees successfuUv — ^that 

 is, without any loss of beee — I refer the readei* to the accompanying 

 drawing. The upper row shows ten colonies as I work them for extracted 

 honey during the season. They are equally ■ spaced with two feet in the 

 clear between the hives. 



The second row shows the same hives after the first shift is made. 

 The four hives, 2, 4, 7, 9, are moved their width toward the center hives 



