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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



did I spend evolving a scheme to have the 

 air in my house as good in winter as in 

 summer and I succeeded beyond my 

 expectations, for it is at its best when the 

 weather is coldest; yet I heat a nine- 

 room house and bath to over 70° day 

 and night (at night it may at times go 

 10 degrees lower,) six months in the 

 year, on less than five tons of coai. I am 

 a smoker, and all of my acquaintances 

 are smokers, and you can always smell 

 stale tobacco smoke in the summer, even 

 when all the windows are open, but 

 never in the winter twenty minutes after 

 the smoking has ceased; a positive proof 

 of the entire change of air. And mind 

 you, Mr. Editor, the cellar plan as out- 

 lined is an improvement on that of my 

 house. At home the ventilating pipes are 

 connected with a pipe placed inside the 

 flue, so there is only the smoke going up 

 the chimney to warm the air in the pipe 

 to create the suction. If building again, 

 those vents would all connect with the 

 bottom of the furnace. Tne main thing 

 with the hot air furnace is to draw in the 

 air of the rosms, so as to give the warm 

 air room to get in. Another thing, of 

 course, is necessary; a cross- section of 

 the cold air box should contain as many 

 square inches as i? contained in all the 

 warm air pipes attached to the furnace. 



This is the principle that 1 have advo- 

 cated in the cellar. The cellar could be 

 a snug-built affair above ground, but the 

 nearer frost proof it is, the less attention 

 it would require. 1 have known my 

 furnace to stay alight for three days 

 without touching it, yet it would keep the 

 house feeling comfortable, when, other- 

 wise it would have been damp and chilly. 



Portland, Me.. Feb. S, 1910. 



[1 was mucn interested in the fore- 

 going, which came to me as a private 

 letter, but is too good to be lost. Par- 

 ticularly was [ interested in the idea that 

 the slacking of lime in a cellar is a species 

 of ventilation. All winter long I have 

 kept a liberal supply of unslacked lime 

 in my cellar here at Flint. A barrel of 

 lime just about fills eight wooden pails, 

 and these 1 set about in different parts 

 of the cellar. When the lime becomes 

 fairly well slacked, 1 dump it in the 

 hatchway, and fill the pails with a fresh 

 supply. 1 have several times wondered, 

 and I mentioned it once in the Re- 

 view, at the pure, sweet odor of the 

 cellar. A cellar containing bees usually 

 has a "beey" smell, and. if they are not 

 wintering well, something more, but no 

 one could tell, from the odor, that there 

 was a bee in my cellar here in Flint. — 

 Editor.] 



A Staple Market and Uniform Prices Better than 

 Fancy Prices on Small Sales. 



HARRY LATHROP. 



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said, because it 



riend Hutch- 

 inson: You 

 have asked me 

 to criticise your 

 editorial on the 

 subject of sell- 

 ing the honey 

 crop, and give 

 my views and 

 experience. 1 

 can not criticise 

 what you have 

 sound and I agree with 



it. The great trouble with this discus- 

 sion is that we can't touch the sore spot; 

 the bee keepers (?) who cause the 

 trouble, do not read bee journals, and it 

 is hard to reach them. To me it seems 

 desirable to have uniform prices for 

 extracted honey of good quality, that 

 honey should become a staple article in 

 the retail markets of the country the 

 same as other products of the farm. 

 The consumer should not pay a large 

 profit to the retailer; as honey comes 

 into competition with sugars and syrups 



