Skptembi:k, 1918 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



525 



Fig. 2. — This is a tee-rellar lje.lonoinir to Leonard Griggs of Flint, Midi. It is a type of an aliovcground 

 cellar embodying the ideas of David Running. The cellar proper extends into the ground about 3 feet. 

 Them there is a three-foot emlankment about 3 feet wide around the upper part of the cellar. Tlie ceiling 

 is covered with about three feet of sawdust. To keep the side embankments dry and frofct-proof the roof 

 extends entirely over the cellar, and embankment, except in front; and Mr. Griggs thought it would be 

 a good idea to cover this also. Mr. Griggs has been uniformly successful in wintering bees in this cellar. 



without the knowledge of the other, marks 

 the information that we are now about to 

 give as very important. 



Mr. Running specifies that the whole be-?- 

 cellar must be well protected from both 

 cold and dampness. It is not enough, he 

 says, that the whole of the cellar be under- 

 grounii and the ceiling on a level with the 

 ground, unless between the ceiling and roof 

 is three or four feet of sawdust. Many 

 and many a good bee-cellar gives ])oor re- 

 sults because tho inside ceiling varies with 



tlie changes of tlie outside temperature. 

 A cellar -where frost during severely cold 

 weather can be scraped off the ceiling is 

 badly designed and cannot be expected 

 to give good results. 



On account of the difficulty in obtaining 

 proper drainage it is not essential, Mr. 

 kunning says, that the whole cellar be sub- 

 merged 21/^ to 3 feet below the general 

 surface of the ground to get below the frost 

 line. In the great majority of cases the 

 cellar will have to be partly above ground 



V\(.. ■■'.. — This cellar Wdiild be well <U 



would seem that the roof water is \\; 



water-soaked, causinj; 



JL'iMd if tl:c r((f <'.M( iidi'.i (ivrr th<' .-idc cul/auknu Ml . As it is. it 

 1 nu away thci emlankment on the left. The emliankiiicnl 1 ecumes 

 the temperature of the cellar to become too cold. 



