FALL AND EARLY WINTER SI 



season. It would be the height of folly, under such conditions, 

 to build a permanent eeilar only to move out after having used it 

 one season. Yet the location may be so extraordinary that the 

 beekeeper may desire to remain and winter out-of-doors in the 

 best available manner. Possibly, with the migratory system, it 

 will be advisable to abandon the large winter cases as too cumber- 

 some to carry here and there with the changed location. 



Where the location is owned by the apiarist with the likeli- 

 hood of his remaining over a series of years, he may select what he 

 considers the ideal manner of protection. 



Yet many of our outapiarists have grown up from a small 

 beginning, They have started their extended beekeeping with 

 only limited capital. One may be able, for a few years at least, 

 to winter under conditions which neither he nor the liest authori- 

 ties deem advisable. It may be to his advantage to evolve a 

 system less costly until a time when, if desirable, he can afford 

 the capital for a new system of wintering better suited to the 

 locality. 



?kIoreover, his system, even if he is fortunate in having all the 

 capital desired, may demand a wintering system that will cor- 

 respond. With the centrally located plant, where all honey is 

 hauled home to be extracted, it will not be advisable to build 

 cellars at outyards for wintering, when the building is required 

 for no other purpose. 



Outdoor vs. Cellar Wintering 



It is very difficult to define specifically just where cellar winter- 

 ing is to be preferred and where outdoor wintering. It will hardly 

 do to indicate zones with the same mean temperatures as having 

 the same conditions applying for wintering of bees, and this 

 because the wind protection of the two may not be the same, the 

 humidity may be different. 



