and its Economic Management. 6g 



Prevention. 



This form of starvation, with its possible consequences, is 

 to be avoided by seeing that every hive has heavily stored 

 combs of good sealed food to winter on. A stock fed with ten 

 or twelve pounds of thick warm syrup, rapidly, towards the end 

 of September will store such food in the immediate vicinity of 

 the cluster, and will stand well, until the following Spring is 

 warm enough for the bees to move freely about the hive. 

 Dysentery will probably never follow after such a provision 

 has been made, unless through carelessness some other exciting 

 cause, such as a choked entrance, badly fitting roof, &c., is 

 permitted. 



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of considerable importance as a preventive, is the adoption of 

 a large frame, when a greater store of food will always be 

 found within reach of a more compact cluster. In a semi- 

 hibernating condition, during cold weather a cluster of bees 

 has no difficulty in gradually moving along the surface of the 

 same combs, and can do so without there being any reason 

 for excitement, but when it becomes necessary to shift on to 

 an entirely fresh set, it means, as we have already seen, a 

 disastrous disturbance of their natural economy. 



