338 WINTEKIlSrG BEES. 



This did not satisfy me ; it only cured ' one disease by 

 instituting another." I saved the bees, (and perhaps 

 some honey), but the combs \vere spoiled. 



EXPEEIMENTS OF THE AUTHOR TO GET RID OF THE FROST. 



I wished to keep them warm, and save the bees as 

 well as honey, and at the same time, get rid of the 

 moisture. I found that a large family expelled it 

 much better than small ones ; and if all were put to- 

 gether in a close room, the animal heat from a large 

 number combined, would be an advantage to the weak 

 ones, at least, — this proved of some benefit. Yet I 

 found on the sides of a glass hive, that large drops of 

 water would stand for weeks. 



SUCCESS IN THIS MATTER. 



The following suggestion then came to my relief. 

 If this hive was bottom up, what would prevent ' all 

 this vapor as it arises from the bees from passing off? 

 (It always rises when warm, if permitted.) The hive 

 was inverted ; in a few hours the glass was dry. 

 ; This was so perfectly simple, that I wondered I had 

 not thought of it before, and wondered still more that 

 some one of the many intelligent apiarians had never 

 discovered it. I immediately inverted every hive in 

 the rooin, and kept them in this way till spring ; when 

 the combs were perfectly bright, not a particle of 

 mould to be seen, and was well satisfied with the re- 

 sult of my experiment. Although I was fearful that 

 more bees would leave the hives when inverted, than 



