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Excerpt from The British Bee Journal, and Bee-Keeper's Adviser, Vol. 9: 1881-82 I think it may interest you or your readers to give my experience of wintering bees in Yorkshire in wooden hives. I may say, first, that a hive with ten Woodbury frames is large enough for any part of Yorkshire. We do not get such honey harvests here as you do in the south, even if we are near the moors. I have only had the wooden hives three winters, and very severe trials they have been for the hives. The first winter in my ignorance I filled the hive-covers with hay, and the result was dampness, and of course dysentery: the hay pre vented the circulation of air over the quilt. The next winter I did simply nothing; and although the hives had each two swarms put in them in the summer and were again doubled in the autumn (making four swarms in each hive), there were very few bees in any of them-the following spring, and they required the greatest care to make decent stocks of them. The scarcity of bees would, of course, be greatly caused by the previous wet summer, which stopped them breeding with me in J uly, and no amount of gradual feeding would make them start again. [exactly our experience and teaching.-ed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.