How to manage Bees in Winter. 99 
thumberland about three years ago, and I have 
reafon to believe that there is not one of them 
yet broken. 
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HOW TO MANAGE BEES IN WINTER, 
yee hives in September, being properly pla- 
ced, covered, and made fit to endure the winter, 
there is very little more neceflary to be done, 
for about three months. This feafon may, — 
therefore, be called the Bee-mafter’s refting time. 
It will be proper, however, occafionally to take 
care, that the covers continue to ftand firmly 
upon the hives, and that no mice neftle about 
them. When the froft is fevere, or when fnow 
is lying on the ground, it will be neceflary to 
prevent the bees from coming out of the hives, 
_ by fhutting up their entry quite clofe with pob- 
tow ; which will keep them warm, at the fame 
time that they will run no rifk of fuffocation in 
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