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Advanced Bee Culture. 



Years ago many bee-keepers practiced taking tlieir bees from the 

 cellar if there came a warm day in the winter, and allowing them to 

 fly, returning them again to the cellar, but this practice has been pretty 

 nearly abandoned. If the bees are in a quiet normal condition it often 

 rouses them and sets them to breeding in mid-winter, which is far from 

 desirable. Rapid breeding late in winter, or very early in the spring, 

 is decidedly objectionable : nothing so C|uickly wears out bees as the 

 rearing of brood; and the more unfavorable the conditions, the greater 

 the wear. It is better that the bees should remain quiet until warm 



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Colon)' of Bees Protected with Building-paper. 



weather furnishes the most favorable conditions for brood-rearing, when 

 the same expenditure of vitality will produce two bees instead of one. 

 Therefore, don't allow a warm day or two in the winter to tempt you to 

 the removal of the bees from the cellar. Wait until the snow is gone, 

 and there is occasionally a day warm enough for bees to fl}-, then take 

 them out to remain permanentl)-. C)n the other hand, nothing is gained, 

 and much ma\' be lost, by leaving the bees in the cellar until lafc in the 

 spring. Alany claim superior advantages for outdoor wintering, as- 

 serting that the colonies build up earlier in the season. They won't if 



