Wintering Bees

Cellars are bysomethougbt tobe jut tln tbiug, but many who httve triert think less of them than they did ere they put i. hive into the usual depcsitories of applei and potatoes. In such places it is claimen thitt the bees have brood e rlier than ii left out doors; but is tlmt a benefit i' Tt llave a brood itis secessary that the beet be active and also that a large share oi lioney and bee bread shonld be consuniei., tor baby bi;es, like other babies, neeti consideiable feeding, and the nurse wil eat more when etuplo37ed thau whei drowsy and half toipid in a hive out 01 doors. Besides, is it not a matter of ex jerience that cellar-protected bivi'S an jenerally in worso condition by tbe befinning of suminer tüan thoso left out oi doors ' Soune people instoad of storing theii ec8"in cellars, put them undcr ground Jnfortunately the largest share of such urifed hives como out in a conditioü woree than if fillod witb fiozen bees, fo) be combs are a mass of ïnuld, unftt foi anything but niakiui; wax of, and pooi wal at that. This, the advocates of tli ystem will say. is owing to defects ii utting up, or shall I not say, down 'i Wbat is the use of niakmg so mucl. 'uss about so simple a matter, for heet will do well enough Uuring the wintei ut of doore, providing there is such i. irculation of air in tue hivo as will cam ff the damp ; aud any ono may secur his by boring a two inch hole in th. ack of the hivo near the top, and, foi roteotion against hep enemiet", ooTeiin; with wire cloth. A few yeus ago ven lation was the rage, but same ov. r-dif. :, for they might as well made hives tirely ot wire Uoth, ug the queer tb.n dignified with the name. lt was suel ventilation as one would like to pnjoy ii the slimmer time, but bees, like nien and woinen, like cosy qukrters when the cold winds blow. I speak of bees in Northern Ohio, noi in New England or up soinmvhere in tin región where Sir John Frarklin wa: frozcii in and died. But one thing I iuh hwzard to say, and thiit is, bees will livi out of doore in properly constructed hive whenever they wil! live wiid ia tbc woods - A mateur, in Ohio Fiirtiier. - - I I Ml