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CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER XXI. 
FALL MANAGEMENT. 
First Care, 307 
Strong Stocks disposed to plunder, 307 
Bees Changeable, .... 308 
Requisites for good Stocks, . . 308 
Great disadvantage of killing the 
Bees, ..... 309 
Section of country may make a dif- 
ference in what poor stocks 
need, . . . • • 309 
When Bees are needed, . . .310 
Caution, 311 
Principal Difficulty, . • • 311 
How Avoided, .... 311 
Advantages of making one good 
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 
Tile Fumigntor, .... 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 as 
Bees, 322 
When feeding should be done for 
Stock Hives, ...» 323 
CHAPTER XXII. 
WINTERING BEES. 
Different methods have been adopt- 
ed, 325 
The idea of Bees not freezing has 
led to errors in practice, . • 326 
Appearance of Bees in cold wea- 
ther, 326 
How part of the swarm is frozen, . 327 
How a small family may all freeze, 327 
Frost and Ice sometimes smother 
Bees, 328 
Frost and Ice in a Hive accounted 
for, 329 
The effect of Ice or Frost on Bees 
and Comb, .... 330 
Frost may cause starvation, . . 330 
Other Difficulties, ...» 330 
Further Illustrations, . . .332 
Accumulation of Faices described 
by some writers as n disease, . 336 
The Author’s remedy, . . .337 
Burying Bees 337 
Experiments of the Author to get 
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 
Spring, 342 
Time for setting out Bees, . . 343 
Not too many stocks taken out at 
once, 343 
Families may be equalized, . . 344 
Snow need not always prevent car- 
rying out Bees, . . « 344 
Does 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, . . * 348 
