OUT-DOOB SHELTERING. 



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confining them wlien the weather is warm enough to entice 

 them abroad. 



If the sun is warm and the ground covered with new-fallen 

 snow, the light may so blind the bees, that they will fall into 

 this fleecy snow, and quickly perish. Even at such times, it is 

 hardly advisable to confine them to their hives. A neighbot 

 of ours killed four colonies, all he had, by closing the en- 

 trances with wire-cloth for Winter. We had advised him to 

 remove it, but he did not do so because some one had told 

 him that his bees would get lost in the snow. 



Fig. 129. 



THE CLOISTER HIVE. 



638. In some countries, as in parts of France, or Eng- 

 land, the weather is often for weeks just chilly enough to make 

 it necessary for the bees to remain in the hive, as those who 

 take advantage of an occasional ray of sun light become 



