Wintering Bees in Cellars

By Everett Franklin Phillips and Geo. S. Demuth

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• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Sep 4, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547215073

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Everett Franklin Phillips, Geo. S. Demuth

Wintering Bees in Cellars

EAN 8596547215073

DigiCat, 2022

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Table of Contents

CELLAR WINTERING VERSUS OUTDOOR WINTERING.

WHERE IS CELLAR WINTERING ADVISABLE?

WINTER CLIMATE.

CHARACTER OF WINTER STORES.

LOCATION AS REGARDS WIND PROTECTION.

ESSENTIALS TO SUCCESS.

NECESSITY OF STRONG COLONIES IN THE FALL.

WINTER STORES.

QUALITY OF STORES.

QUANTITY OF STORES.

ARRANGEMENT OF THE APIARY.

WIND PROTECTION.

DISTANCE OF THE APIARY FROM THE CELLAR.

THE BEE CELLAR.

CELLAR UNDER THE RESIDENCE.

SPECIAL WINTER REPOSITORY.

SOIL AND CONTOUR OF THE SURFACE OF THE GROUND.

CAPACITY OF THE CELLAR.

WALLS AND FLOOR.

ROOF.

ENTRANCE TO THE CELLAR.

DRAINAGE.

VENTILATION.

PUTTING THE BEES INTO THE CELLAR.

TIME.

HOW TO CARRY THE BEES.

HOW TO STACK THE HIVES.

MAINTENANCE OF THE CELLAR DURING THE WINTER.

TEMPERATURE OF THE CELLAR.

VENTILATION OF THE CELLAR.

VENTILATION OF THE HIVE.

CLEANING THE CELLAR.

REMOVING THE BEES FOR FLIGHT DURING THE WINTER.

DISTURBANCE DURING THE WINTER.

REMOVAL OF THE BEES FROM THE CELLAR.

TIME.

PREVENTION OF DRIFTING.

PROTECTION OF THE HIVES IN THE SPRING.

PROVIDING BREEDING ROOM AND STORES IN THE SPRING.

MEASURES OF SUCCESS IN CELLAR WINTERING.

THE PRESIDENT TO THE FARMERS OF AMERICA.

THE BUSINESS OF AGRICULTURE.

CELLAR WINTERING VERSUS OUTDOOR WINTERING.

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Bees in the more northern parts of the United States for many years have been placed by some of the best beekeepers in cellars or special repositories during the coldest parts of the winter. There has been a growing feeling, however, that if outdoor wintering is practicable, in most cases it gives better results, and there has been a decided change from cellar wintering to outdoor wintering within the past decade. The difficulty seems to be that the methods of cellar wintering practiced have not been satisfactory and it seems probable that if as much attention had been given, to the perfection of the methods of cellar wintering as has been given to an improvement of the methods of outdoor wintering, there would not have been as great a change to the outdoor methods as has taken place.

Fig. 1.

—Map of the United States showing regions where cellar wintering is practicable, based on the average temperature of January. From data furnished by the United States Weather Bureau.

The placing of bees in a cellar is only another way of putting insulation about the hives, the only difference being that in the cellar all of the hives are protected alike and the protection is placed about the apiary instead of around hives in groups or singly. It follows that the principles which apply to successful outdoor wintering apply equally to the protection of the bees in the cellar. It is urged, therefore, that before attempting to winter bees in the cellar, the beekeeper study the bulletins[1] of the department in which these principles