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CONTENTS 
CHAPTEK XXI. 
FALL MANAGEMENT. 
First Care, . * . . .307 
Strong Slocks cl sposed to plunder, 307 
Bees Changeable, .... 308 
Requisites for good Stocks, . . 30s 
«rcat disadvantage of killing the 
Does, 309 
Action of country may make a dif- 
ference in what poor stocks 
need, 309 
When Bees are needed, . . . 310 
Caution, 
Principal Difficulty . . . 311 
IIow Avoided, . *. . . , gjj 
Advantages of making one gDod 
stock from two poor ones, .312 
Two families together will not con- 
sume as much as if separate, . 312 
An Experiment, . . 312 
Season for operating, . . 313 
The Fumigator, .... 314 
Directions for uniting two families, 315 
Uniting with Tobacco Smoke, . 317 
Condition of Stocks in 1851, . .318 
How they were managed, . . 318 
Cause of their superior Thrift, . 319 
Swarms partly filled pay better than 
to cut out the honey, . . 320 
Advantages in transferring, . . 320 
Another method of uniting two 
families, 321 
Uniting Comb and Honey as well ns 
Pees, 322 
When feeding should be done for 
Stock Hives, .... 32 ? 
CHAPTER XXII. 
WINTERING BEES. 
Different methods have been adopt- 
ed) 
The idea of Becfl not freezing has 
led to errors in practice, . . 326 
Appearance of Bees in cold wea- 
ther, 320 
How part of the swarm is frozen, . 327 
Haw a small family may all freeze, 327 
Frost and Ice sometimes smother 
Decs, 328 
Frost and Ice in a Hive accounted 
lor, 309 
The effect of Ice or Frost on Bees 
and Comb, .... 330 
Frost may cause starvation, . . 330 
Other Difficulties, .... 330 
Further Illustrations, . . . 332 
Accumulation of Faeces described 
. iy some writers as a disease, .330 
The Author’s remedy, . . . 337 
Burying Bees 337 
Experiments of the Author to y et 
rid of the Frost, . . , 338 
Success in this matter, . . .338 
Bees when in the house should be 
kept perfectly dark, . . .339 
A room made for wintering Bees, . 339 
Manner of stowing away Hives, . 340 
Temperature of room, . . .341 
Too much Honey may sometimes be 
stored, 342 
Management of room towards 
s Mng: 342 
Time for setting out Bees, . . 343 
Not too many stock* taken out af 
<>nce, ... , 343 
Families may be equalized, . . 344 
Snow need not always prevent car- 
rying out Bees, . . . 344 
Docs not Analogy prove that Bees 
should be kept warm in Winter ? 345 
The next best place for wintering 
Bees, 346 
Evils of wintering in the open air 
considered 347 
But little risk with good stocks, . 348 
Effect of keeping second-rate stocks 
out of the sun, . . . 34s 
