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THE APIARY. 
at night. The temperature should not be allowed to fall to the 
freezing point, yet forty or fifty stocks enclosed in small space, 
generate much heat, and may sometimes become uncomfortably 
warm, which will be known by the uneasy motions of the bees. 
They should be examined occasionally throughout the win'.er, to 
see that all is right, but disturbed as little as possible. As spring 
approaches, strong stocks become more uneasy, and should be 
taken to their summer stands during the first warm days of 
March, setting out a few stocks at a time, to avoid confusion by 
mixing, until each has marked its location. 
FEEDING BEES. 
If the directions given in this work are carefully followed, few 
stocks will require feeding. When light stocks are in the 
American hive, any boxes taken off late, and but partially 
filled, may be placed upon such hives, and there being large pas 
sages into the boxes from every comb in the hive, the bees 
readily take possession of honey thus given them, even in the 
coldest weather. But in common hives, or in hives having a 
honey-board between the frames and surplus boxes, a colony 
would starve in cold weather , with plenty of honey in the cham 
her. Yet, if it is desired to winter light stocks, and all the honey, 
either in frames or boxes, has been imprudently used or sold, the 
best feed that can be given them is strained honey, by pouring 
it into the combs, or allowing them to take it from shallow pans 
placed in the chamber of the hive. The feeding should be done 
early in October, that the cells may be sealed over, as far ,1! 
possible, before cold weather, for unsealed liquid absorbs imp" 11 ' 
