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WINTERm?. 
" With gone! queens, plenty of young bees, anfc abundatw# of stores, bee# 
are ready to go into winter quarters whenever cold weather sets in. 
About thirty pounds of honey or sugar syrup will be required for out-door 
wintering, and about twenty for in-door wintering. If wintered out-of-doors^ 
crowd the bees on to four or six frames, pack around them with chaff or 
saw-dust, and lay a good chaff cushion on top of the frames, leaving the 
entrance open. To winter in-doors, on a sunny day late in the fall, take off 
covers and cushions, remove all propolis-coated cloths, let the sun dry off tha 
bees thoroughly, lay on clean cloths, cover with cushions, aud carry into a bee- 
house or dry cellar. The bee-house should be built with hollow walls, having 
not less than twenty-one inches of spaoe filled in with chalf, tan-bark, or 
saw-dust. When thus housed in a cellar or bee-house, keep in utter dark- 
ness and quiet, maintain a temperature from forty-two to forty-five degrees, 
and give your bees a good letting-alone until spring returns again. Those 
who winter out-of-doors in my double-hive, will not require to do any chaff- 
packing. All that is necessary is to crowd the bees up into small compass 
with the division board, and lay a thiqlt clu# cushion op top of the frames." 
