;-i(iil FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



mucli more frequent, and tlie sweeping must be more frequent. 

 As giving- a more definite idea with regard to tliis, I find by 

 I'eferring to the record that in the winter of 1901-2 tlie cellai' 

 was not SAvept till January 29 — seventy-five days after the 

 bees were taken in. Then it was swept again after respective 

 intervals of twenty-one, nineteen, and five days, the quantity 

 s«eiit out each time being about the same. Tliat gives some 



/"'/'//. I Id — Siiil-hoxes. 



idea of the greater moi'tality as spring approaches. One 

 winter, when the bees were confined 124 days, the dead bees 

 for each colony amoimted to four-fifths of a quart or three- 

 fifths of a pound, which made about 2130 bees for each colony 

 I think the moi'tality is usually greater than that. 



FURNACE IN ('ELL.\R. 



In the year 1902 the coal famine following the great an- 

 thracite strike caught me witli four hard-coal stoves and no 

 coal to put in them — indeed, no ]iros])ect of getting any, and 

 winter close at hand. 



About that time my friend K. R. Root ha|)pened to be 

 here, and strongly advised as the Ijest way out of the dilemma 



