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WINTERING BEES. 
“ I suppose you must get along without losing many 
through the winter, if I may judge by your confident 
explanations.” 
“ I can assure you I have but little fear on this head. 
If I can have the privilege of selecting proper stocks, 
I will engage not to lose one in a hundred.” 
“ How do you manage ? 1 would be glad to obtain 
a method in which I could feel as perfectly safe as 
you appear to.” 
“ The first important requisite is to have all good 
ones to start with. Enough weak families are united 
together till they are strong, or some other disposition 
made of them.” I then gave him an outline of my 
method of wintering, which I can confidently recom- 
mend to the reader. 
ACCUMULATION OF F/ECES DESCRIBED BY SOME WRITERS AS 
A DISEASE. ^ 
This accumulation of faeces is considered by many 
writers as a disease — a kind of dysentery. It is de- 
scribed as affecting them towards spring, and several 
remedies are given. Now if what I have been de. 
scribing is not the dysentery, why I must think I 
never had a case of it; but I shall still persist in 
guessing it to be the same, and suppose that inatten- 
tion with many must be the reason that it is not 
discovered in cold weather, at the time that it takes 
place. Some stocks may be badly affected, yet not 
lost entirely, when moderate weather will stop its 
progress. When a remedy is applied in the spring, 
long after the cause ceases to operate, it would be 
