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Date: | Tue, 15 Dec 2020 10:16:05 -0500 |
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Has the Winter Problem been solved? The frequent and discouraging reports of heavy losses in wintering, and the large number of empty hives to be seen in many apiaries all over the country, answer, no. Chaff hives, doublewalled hives, and in fact, hives of every description, seem to avail but little, so far as successful wintering is concerned.
I wish to offer a few remarks on this subject, but do not intend to condemn any style of hive, or method of preparing for winter. The hive is of minor importance in this matter, and there are things to be considered, of vastly more interest and which exert more influence in this regard, than does the hive, or packing and preparing for winter.
One point to be considered is this : have we any established strain, or distinct race of bees, that includes the necessary qualities which fit them to withstand the extreme changes and trying severity of our long winters?
— Henry Alley. 1883. The American Apiculturist A Journal Devoted to Scientific and Practical BEE-KEEPING.
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