How to manage Bees in Winter. IOL 
ferve them from cold. But, indeed, when the 
hives are properly covered, and the entries to 
‘them clofely fhut up, they will refift a very fe- 
vere cold. 
Many ingenious gentlemen have tried differ- 
ent methods to preferve bees in winter. Some 
have fhut them up in cold out-houfes, from 
September to April; others only from the 1ft 
ot November to March. A third clafs place 
grates before their entries, to admit air, but 
keep the bees clofe in their hives, during the 
whole winter. 
The limits of this performance will not per- 
mit me to enlarge upon the fruitleffnefs of 
thefe inventions. Suffice it therefore to ob- 
ferve 
through a very narrow hole. It is therefore advifeable, though 
the hives may be fuppofed perfectly clofe, to infpeét them fre- 
quently, left any bees fhould get out at an unfufpected place, and 
not only perifh themfelves, but leave an opening for invaders to 
get in. Befides, upon returning to their hives, they will go to 
their ufual entry to get in again, and not finding admittance, will 
wander about in fearch of it, till they perith, unlefs they chance 
to alight upon the aperture by which they had got out. The 
fame caution muft be obferved, when a hive is fhut up at any o- 
ther feafon of the year, or upon any account whatever. 
I have fometimes picked up great numbers of wandering bees 
from off the cold ground, or fnow, and, after recovering them 
by gradyal warmth, have reftored them again to their hives, 
