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OBSERVATIONS ON THE 
Management of Hives in Winter* 
Bees are evidently natives of a 
warm climate, a high temperature 
being absolutely necessary to their 
existence; and their continuing to live 
in hollow trees during the severe win¬ 
ters of Russia and America, must de¬ 
pend on the heat produced from the 
great ske of the swarms which inha¬ 
bit these abodes. 
It is therefore essential to the 
thriving of bees, that they be kept 
warm and well sheltered, especially in 
winter: either keep them in a wooden, 
mud, or stone house; or if they must 
stand out, let them be well limed and 
thatched with straw. The entrance 
