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WINTERING OUTDOORS 
Pig. 5.—This is located like Pig. 4 in that it is screened by trees from the north winds. The low 
shrubbery helps also. 
October and November, they will form this 
winter nest. If, however, they are on the 
verge of starvation and they are fed 30 
lbs. in a single night toward the last end 
of the fall, or when it is quite cold, they 
do not have the opportunity of forming 
this nest. They will carry the syrup down 
while it is hot; then for a few days after 
that, if it is so they can fly, or, rather, so 
the cluster can move freely about the 
brood-nest, they may or may not rearrange 
the stores. The cluster, when it actually 
forms up for winter, will be practically one 
homogeneous mass of bees separated only 
by thin cell walls and the midribs of the 
combs. 
Pig. 6.—This is an artificial windbreak surrounding a Root apiary in a small orchard. But as there is 
a clear windsweep on level ground for over a mile in all directions this fence was put up. The loca¬ 
tion is desirable because it is in the center of an alsike-clover district. 
