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MANAGEMENT IN WINTER. 
hives, that the bees are often induced to venture 
abroad, and, soon chilled by the cold, they fall in 
hundreds on the snow, and, if not timely succoured, 
will ultimately perish. This evil may be prevented 
in some degree by turning, as soon as winter has set 
fairly in, the hives round on their stands, so that the 
entrance may face the north.* If this precaution 
has not been taken in time, and the unfortunate 
wanderers are already prostrate on the snow, let 
them be instantly gathered, placed in a vessel, (a 
dinner-dish-cover, for example,) having a piece of 
* Sir. Nutt, the Lincolnshire Bee-Master alluded to in 
page 1 82, gives, in his work, an account of an experiment 
to ascertain the effect of changing the site of hives from 
a southern to a northern exposure during winter. He took 
six hives weighing hb under, and placed three on the north side 
of his house, leaving the other three in their usual situation. 
In November 1834, 
No. 1 weighed 35 lbs. 
No. 4 weighed 42 lbs. 
2 — 38 
5—32 
3 — 40 
6 _ 37 
113 
111 
The first three, Nos. 1, 2, & 3, 
weighing 113 lbs., remained 
during winter in their summer situations. Nos, 4, 5, & 6, were 
removed to a cold dry place on the north side of his house. 
On the 26th of the following March they weighed as follows 
No. 1. weighed 15 lbs. 
No. 4. weighed 37 lbs. 
2. — 16 
5. — 27 
3. — 19 
6. — 32 
50 
9G 
The three first, therefore, lost 03 lbs., on an average 21 lbs. 
each ; the three last decreased only 15 lbs., average 5 lbs each. 
The three last swarmed in May, the three first not till July. 
