FALL AND I'.ARLY WINTER 



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Fig. 35. Placing the big telescope covers on the hives after filling them 



with le;ivcs. 



Cellar Wintering and Cellars 



Protection is afforded in cellar as in outdoor wintering, the 

 difference being that the outside protection in one ease is placed 

 around the whole apiary while in the other it is around a single 

 colony, two colonies, or four or more, as the case may be. 



The same safeguards for winter protection are to be observed 

 as in outdoor wintering. But there are added precautions to be 

 taken in the cellar since the bees are confined during the whole 

 of the winter. They will have no chances for flight and changes 

 of temperature and extreme variations in ventilation, moisture, 

 etc., have a greater bearing. 



