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thoroughly ventilating the hive, which keeps 
the Bees in a healthy condition both winter 
and summer; for Bees need more air in 
winter than they do in summier, as in cold 
weather they crowd together in a small com- 
pass, in order to keep warm, and their breath 
and vapor collect in frost in all parts of the 
hive, except in the region they occupy. By 
having a thorough ventilation through the 
hive the Bees are kept perfectly healthy. 
CHAPTER XXIV. 
ON VENTILATION. 
VENTILATION is one of the greatest re- 
sults of my studies and experiments on this 
point of apiarian science. There are but 
few persons, who are managers of Honey 
Bees under the old hive system, but have 
beheld these little creatures, when oppressed 
with the internal heat of their crowded do- 
