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WINTERING BEES. 
This did not satisfy me ; it only cured “one disease by 
instituting another.” I saved the bees, (and perhaps 
some honey), but the combs were spoiled. 
EXPERIMENTS OF THE AUTHOR TO GET RID OF THE FROST. 
I wished to keep them warm, and save the bees as 
well as honey, and at the same time, get rid of the 
moisture. I found that a large family expelled it 
much better than small ones; and if all were put to- 
gether in a close room, the animal heat fiom a large 
number combined, would be an advantage to the weak 
ones, at least, — this proved of some benefit. Yet I 
found on the sides of a glass hive, that large drops of 
water would stand for weeks. 
SUCCESS IN THIS MATTER. 
The following suggestion then came to my relief. 
If this hive was bottom up, what would prevent all 
this vapor as it arises from the bees from passing off? 
(It always rises when warm, if permitted.) The hive 
was inverted ; in a few hours the glass was dry. 
This was so perfectly simple, that I wondered I had 
not thought of it before, and wondered still more that 
some one of the many intelligent apiarians had never 
discovered it. I immediately inverted every hive in 
the room, and kept them in (his way till spring ; when 
the combs were perfectly bright, not a particle of 
mould to be seen, and was well satisfied with the re- 
sult of my experiment. Although I was fearful that 
more bees would leave the hives when inverted, than 
