336 wiNTERUsra bees. 



" I suppose you must get along without losing many 

 through the winter, if I may judge by your confident 

 explanations." 



" I can assure you I have but little fear on this head. 

 If I can have the privilege of selecting proper stocks, 

 I will engage not to lose one in a hundred." 



" How do you manage ? I would be glad to obtain 

 a method in which I could feel as perfectly safe as 

 •you appear to." 



" The first important requisite is to have all good 

 ones to start with. Enough weak families are united 

 together till they are strong, or some other disposition 

 made of them." I then gave him an outline of my 

 method of wintering, which I can confidently recom- 

 mend to the reader. 



ACCUMULATION OF F^CBS DESCRIBED BT SOME WRITERS A6 

 A DISEASE. 



This accumulation of faeces is considered by many 

 writers as a disease — a kind of dysentery. It is de- 

 scribed as affecting them towards spring, and several 

 remedies are given. Now if what I have been de. 

 scribing is not the dysentery, why I must think I' 

 never had a case of it; but I shall still persist in 

 guessing it to be the same, and suppose that inatten- 

 tion with many must be the reason that it is not 

 discovered in cold weather, at the time that it takes 

 place. Some stocks may be badly affected, yet not 

 lost entirely, when moderate weather will stop its 

 progress. When a remedy, is applied in the spring, 

 long after the cause ceases to operate, it would be 



