WINTERING BEES. 
361 
Great, loss is often incurred in replacing upon thoir 
Summer stands the stocks which have been kept in special 
depositories. Unless the day when they are put out la 
very favorable, many will be lost when they fly to dis¬ 
charge their faices. In movable-comb hives, this risk can 
be greatly diminished, by removing the cover from the 
frames, and allowing the sun to shine directly upon the 
bees; this wUl warm them up so quickly, that they will all 
discharge their faeces in a very short time.* 
After the stocks are placed on their Summer stands,! 
the precautions already described should be taken to 
strengthen feeble or impoverished colonies (p. 221). 
• Tho following is an extract ^om my Journal: ti,. 
“Jan. Slat, 1857 .-Romoved tbo upper cover, exposing the bees to the 
of the sun,^the thermometer being 80<> In the shade, and the atmosphere calv^ 
The hive standing on the sunny side of the house, the bees quickly took *‘”6 
u /I thoir fiPOAft. Very few were lost on the enow, and nearly all that 
ahehteTon It took wing without being chilled. More bees were lost from other 
Mves which Ire not opened, a. few which left were able to return; while. In the 
one with the cover removed, the returning bees were able to alight at once among 
t'Meraridvlsea placing them on their former eUndis u 
rememb-r the old spot. Mr. Qulnby uses this time for equalising the eolonle^^ 
Tands tha^ “being all wintered In one room, their scent U «. much MIk 
that they mix together without conUnuon. 
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