as possible to protect them. Overripe or cracked heads should not be
stored. The heads are placed in the pit with their heads down and roots
up. The second layer is also placed heads down between the roots of the
first layer. It is well not to have more than two layers, on account of
the weight having a tendency to crush the lower layer.

When the cabbages are put in place they are covered with a layer of
earth. When cold weather comes, straw or manure can be added.

Cabbages can often be kept better in pits than in common cellars.--E. F.
McKune, Colorado Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colorado.




Wintering of Bees.

FRANCIS JAGER, APIARIST, UNIVERSITY FARM, ST. PAUL.


The winter losses of bees in Minnesota are great every year. Bee keepers
can reduce these losses by preparing bees for their winter-quarters.

The chief known cause for winter losses are: Queenlessness, smallness of
number of bees in colonies, insufficient food, improper food, dampness,
bad air, the breaking of the clusters, and low temperature.

More colonies die from lack of food and from cold than from all other
causes. In fact, most of the other causes can be traced to lack of food
and cold.