WINTERING 169 



This late brood insures that a majority 

 of the bees for wintering over are young 

 and vigorous, not tired out and travel- 

 worn after a summer's hard work in the 

 fields. Such young bees will not only have 

 a better chance of resisting the cold but 

 they will be far more capable of conduct- 

 ing the work of the hive in a successful 

 manner in the spring. They will have all 

 of that youthful "pep" which goes far 

 toward making a success of any new ven- 

 ture — and each year in the beehive is a 

 new venture for the honey gatherers. All 

 old scores are wiped out, a new generation 

 is started. 



Bearing in mind these three factors of 

 shelter, food and numbers, any beekeeper 

 should be able to work out his wintering 

 problems except in those extreme north- 

 ern locations where cellar wintering must 

 be resorted to. I have not gone into the 

 question of cellar wintering chiefly be- 

 cause it is not widely practised and partly 

 because I never wintered a bee in a cellar 



