Note K — Chapter XVII

In the 15th page of his "Apiarian's Guide," J. H. Payne, Esq. says—"a Bee becomes torpid at a temperature of thirty-two degrees"—Payne is an experienced apiarian. What credit then is due to the anonymous critic, who in one of the weekly periodicals[L] has told us that "Bees in a glass hive, exposed in the open air, when its temperature was twenty degrees below freezing, instead of being in a state of of torpor, continued very lively?!!"—Before yielding implicit credence to this statement, it would be exceedingly satisfactory to be informed how long the Bees so exposed continued very lively.