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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXI. 



FALL MANAGEMEKT. 



First Carcj 307 



Strong Stocks dispoEed to plunder, 307 

 Bees ChaDgeable, .... 308 

 Requisites for good Stocks, . . 308 

 fireat disadvantage of killing the 



Bees, 309 



Jeclion of country may make a dif- 

 ference in -what poor stocks 



need, 309 



f^en Bees are needed, . . . 310 



Caution, 311 



Principal Difficulty . . .311 



How Avoided, .... Sll 



Advantages of making one good 



stock from two poor ones, . 312 

 Two families together Tvill not con- 

 sume as much as if separate, . 312 



An Experiment, . . 312 



Season for operating, . . 313 



The Fumigator, . . . .314 

 Directions for uniting two Tamilies, 315 

 Uniting with Tobacco Smoke, . 317 



Condition of Stocks in 1851, . . 318 

 How they were managed, . . 318 

 Cause of their superior Thrift, . 319 



Swarms partly filled pay better than 



to cut out the honey, . . 320 

 Advantages in transferring, . . 320 

 Another method of- uniting two 



families, . ... . .321 



Uniting Comb and Honey as well as 



Bees, 322 



When feeding should be done for 



Stock Hives, . . . . 32£ 



CHAPTER XXII . 

 WINTERIKG BEES. 



Difiercnt methods have been adopt- 

 ed, 325 



The idea of Bees not freezing has 



led to errors in practice, . . 326 

 Appearance of Bees in cold wea- 

 ther, 326 



How part of the sw^arm is frozen, . 327 

 How a small family may all freeze, 327 

 Frost and Ice sometimes smother 



Bees, 328 



Frost and Ice in a Hive accounted 



for, 329 



The effect of Ice or Frost on Bees 



and Comb, . . . .330 

 Frost may cause starvation, . . 330 

 Other Difficulties, . . . .330 

 Further Dlustrations, . . . 332 

 Accumulation of Faeces described 



jy some writers as a disease, . 336 

 The Author's remedy, . . . 337 



Burying Bees 337 



Experiments of the Author to get 

 rid of the Frost, . . .338 



Bees when in the house should be 



kept perfectly dark, . . . 339 

 A room made for wintering Bees, . 339 

 Manner of stowing away Hives, . 340 

 Temperature of room, . . . 341 

 Too much Honey may sometimes be 



stored, 342 



Management of room tow^ards 



Sprmg, 342 



Time for setting out Bees, . . 343 

 Not too many stocks taken out at 



once, 343 



Families may be equalized, . , 344 

 Snow need not always prevent car- 

 rying out Bees, . . . 344 

 Does not Analogy prove that Bees 



should be kept warm in Winter ? 346 

 The next best place for wintering 



Bees, 34a 



Evils of wintering in the open air 



considered, .... 347 

 But little risk with good stocks, . 348 

 Effect of keeping second-rate stocks 



fluecess in this matter, 



.338 



out of the sun, . 



,848 



