At 10:42 AM 25/05/1998 -0500, David Eyre wrote:
>
>I have been advocating the above for many years. It would appear that
>upwards ventilation is a European idea. Why it is frowned on in North
>America, I for one fail to understand!
>        I remember reading in one of the older bee keeping manuals (I
>believe A.I. Roots) ventilation being discussed and at the time it
>was considered necessary. How come it's fallen out of favour?
>
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Bees ventilation.
Langstroth, L.L. (1859): "To practical treatise on the hive and honey bee".
++Ed. 3 p. 341. New York.
        In the winter of 1855-56 I had 20 colonies in a string, each one of those
which was considered in very good been about to the wintering, with the not
too beehives closed down neither too opened up.  One of the colonies was in
a beehive discontinued to 10 inches of the soil and without the floor, so
that was thoroughly opened by down.  The chamber with the excessive honey
supers was opened northward and had 8 holes of an inch all open.   Me was of
house about 12 of February, with a time very cold and all the beehives cover
of  snow.  I returned at the end from the month and I proceed to examine the
beehives string; I found that in 19 of they had been melted the snow, but
they were excessively wet and in a lamentable state.  If the might have been
able to carry to the house, it would be of the scope of the thread until
they were you dried, probably they would have been saved the colonies.
Before the tomorrow following changed the time and was making a terrible
cold, having succumbed immediately 19 colonies.  While the remainder, that
it did not had the fund and was filled with holes, that is to say, in an
evident carelessness state, resulted very vigorous and heals.  Before
adopting ventilation up above as I made it with this beehive, had lost my
better colonies in the form that I have @@descripto, so much that had
arrived to desanimarme.
Cited By Root.  The A B C of the Apiculture, page. 334. -
 
 
        For my also it is a mystery as the modern beehives were converted in
a kind of Turkish bath for the bees.
 
 
 
 
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