Show Bees Need Overcoats During Cold Weather Plan to Make Colonies Snug Before Winter Sets In Th The careful wintering of ot his bees isone Is Isone isone one of or the things to which the successful success success- ful apiarist gives close attention say the bee men at the New v York College of Agriculture In Ithaca In pointing out that the time to plan for tor making the Ule colonies snug Is before the cold Weather veather Is at hand The college authorities In a statement statement statement state state- ment Issued recently explain the two ways of wintering most used used used-In In packIng packIng pack pack- Ing cases and in cellars Those who use the packing case method seem to agree that each case should house four tour colonies and should have four Inches of Insulation on the bottom eight Inches on on the sides and a 11 afoot afoot foot toot on top of the hives The cases should bo be prepared late in September or or early In October Beekeepers In northern and central New York find that the cellar Is most satisfactory as a wintering place The Tho hives are put Into cellars beor before the bees have lost any of their vitality by freezing usually freezing usually not later than the middle of November November and and are left undisturbed undisturbed undisturbed un un- disturbed until spring A uniform temperature temperature temperature tem tem- of between 45 and 50 degrees Fahrenheit is maintained the cell cellars aIS aI'S are kept dark and little ventilation is 13 given Cellars below the frost line where the temperature never drops below 40 Fahrenheit are recommended by the experts and they say that the bees sh should uld never be confined to the hives by screens screens as is sometimes lone done They should be taken out of doors again early In April |