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AN EASY METHOD OF 
weather commences, suspend the bottom 
board half an inch, and open the ventilator. 
REMARKS. 
The watery substance which is caused by 
the breath and other exhalations of the bees, 
and collects in the drawers in cold weather, 
should be kept out of them ; because frost 
forms in them, and runs down through the 
apertures on to the bees as often as it melts, 
and makes the bees damp and the combs 
mould; besides, this vapor penetrates and 
tills the timber (drawers and chamber) and 
causes a disagreeable smell the following 
season, and is the cause of introducing the 
little ants into the chamber. 
There arc three principal causes of death 
among bees in the winter, to wit: want of 
honey, (not bread, for they never eat it except 
when in the larva state) want of air, and freez- 
ing. 
Bees sometimes die of starvation, with 
plenty of honey in the hive at the same time. 
In cold weather they crowd together in a 
small compass in order to keep warm ; and 
then, their breath, and vapor collect in frost 
