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Winterize Bees
Winterize your bees now, says W. H. Lyne, County Agent. It will assure you of strong colonies of bees for pollination of fruit trees and possibly a good honey crop next year. Recently beekeepers met at L. J. Kilby farm where J. M. Amos, Bee Specialist of V.P.I. stressed the following points for successful wintering of bees. An abundance of bees, preferably young bees, are needed to keep one another warm. As they get older, bees die and the population in the hive goes down until early the next spring. A minimum of 5 to 7 pounds of bees is needed to pass the winter. An abundance of food, honey and pollen is needed so bees can rear a brood in late winter before plants start growing and bees Can fly freely. A shallow super of honey plus what they store in the brood nest should be enough. This is about 40 to 60 pounds in most cases. A third point to observe is to make sure the bees have a good wind break and face the sun where possible. Don't let cold winter wind6 blow in the front of the hive. Amos stressed the need for reducing the entrance to one fourth inch high across the hive to keep out mice. They destroy combs, eat bees, irritate the bees and are a real nuisance. Keep the bees where skunks cannot reach them, Amos advises, as they are almost as much of a pest as mice*- -—- -
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