 | 1818 - 476 páginas
...hives which are best covered during winter, always prosper most the following summer. In consequetice, about the end of harvest I add to the thin covering...frosts, to be entirely shut up, as numbers of them are often lost from being enticed to quit trie 1iive by by the, sunshine of a winter day. It will,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - 1494 páginas
...always prosper most the following summer. In consequence, about the end of harvest, I add to the tliin covering of straw put on the hives at the time of...frosts, to be entirely shut up, as numbers of them are often lost from being enticed to quit the hive by the sunshine of a winter day. It will, however,... | |
 | John S. Skinner, Editor. - 1826 - 438 páginas
...continuing to live in hollow trees during the severe winters of Russia and America, must depend on the Jieat produced from the great size of the swarms which inhabit...frosts, to be entirely shut up, as numbers of them are often lost from being enticed to quit the hive by the sunshine of a winter day. It will, however,... | |
 | Library, John Baxter - 1830 - 594 páginas
...October, the aperture at which the bees enter should generally be narrowed, so as only one bee may pass at a time. Indeed, as a very small portion of...frosts, to be entirely shut up, as numbers of them are often lost, from being enticed to quit their hives by the sunshine of a winter's day. It will,... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - 1844 - 1210 páginas
...October, the aperture at which the bees enter should generally be narrowed, so that only one bee may pass at a time. Indeed, as a very small portion of...frosts to be entirely shut up, as numbers of them are often lost from being enticed to quit the hive by the sunshine of a winter day. It will, however,... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - 1869 - 1296 páginas
...October, the aperture at which the bees enter should generally be narrowed, so that only one bee may pass at a time. Indeed, as a very small portion of...frosts to be entirely shut up, as numbers of them are often lost from being enticed to quit the hive by the sunshine of a winter day- It will, however,... | |
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I add to the thin covering of straw put on the hives at the time of swarming, a thick coat, and shut up the aperture through which the bees entered, so that only one can pass at a time. Indeed as a very small portion of air is necessary for bees in their... 