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WINTERING. 



The most wide-spread style, is the chaff-hive, of A. I. 

 Root. This hive is far superior to single-wall hives for out- 

 door wintering. It is made in two stories, but all in one 

 piece. This renders it rather inconvenient to reach down 

 to the lower story, when handling bees. We, therefore, 

 made our chaff hives of a single story with half-story cap, 

 like that of fig. 69. This single- wall cap can be filled 

 with a cushion, dry leaves, or any other absorbents. Some 

 Apiarists also use one-story chaff-hives with loose bottom- 

 boards that can be taken off to remove the dead bees in 

 Spring. 



641. After having used some eighty chaff -hives during 

 six or eight years, we find two disadvantages in them : 

 1st. They are heavy and inconvenient to handle, especially 

 when made to accommodate ten Quinby, or twenty Simplic- 



Fig. 108 

 rNSIDE OF THE CHBSHIRE HIVE. 

 hi, niyes sides with covlt-rlust for paokinj;. sc, section case. '», section. 

 8, separators, fn, foundation. 



