MANAGING BEES. 
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REMARKS. 
Bees require more air in order to enable 
them to endure the heat of summer and the 
severity of winter, than at any other time. If 
they are kept out in the cold, they need as 
much air in the winter, as in the heat of sum- 
mer. It is in a mild temperature only, that it 
is safe to keep them from the pure air. If 
placed below frost in a dry sand-bank, they 
seem to need scarcely more than is contained 
in their hive at the time they are buried, dur- 
ing the whole winter. If kept in a clean, dry 
cellar, the mouth so constructed as to keep out 
mice, gives them enough. But if they are kept 
in the apiary, there should be a slow, imper- 
ceptible current of air constantly passing in at 
the bottom and off at the top through the ven- 
tilator, to let the excess of animal heat escape 
in summer, and also to throw oS’ the vapor 
caused by the breath and other exhalations of 
the bees, which causes frost and ice in the 
hive in winter, and which is frequently the 
cause of the death of the bees. 
