THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



etrated it. This floor, however, is but ten 

 feet wide, leaving a space of three feet on 

 each side of the building. 



The wooden side walls of the bnilding, 

 above the stone basement are four feet high 

 and there is a set of studding at each edge of 

 the floor, three feet from the outer side walls, 

 that run up to the rafters of the building, 

 and this space, 24 feet long and three feet 

 wide and 4 feet deep is filled with pine 

 leaves, making the side walls of the building, 

 above the foundation, 3 feet thick, which 

 cuts off all danger of frost. The walls are 

 frame-sided with drop siding and the roof is 

 of good shingles. 



pose of keeping one-half of the bees undis- 

 turbed while the other side was opened 

 either for putting the hives in in the fall or 

 taking them out in the spring, and I find it a 

 great help. 



The hives are placed in two rows in each 

 room, one row along the outer wall and one 

 along each side of the central partition, and 

 when properly filled will hold one hundred 

 colonies in each room. The hives are set on 



THE WINTERING CELLAE OF B. TAYLOB, FOKESTVILLE, MINN. 



The cellar is divided by cutting off three 

 feet from the front entrance for an ante- 

 room, leaving the actual room for bees 18 

 feet long and the room is divided length- 

 wise, by a board partition, into two equal 

 rooms 6}^ feet wide, by 18 feet long. This 

 dividing into two rooms was for the pur- 



a proper stand 8 inches from the ground 

 floor. 



A ventilator opens into the back end of 

 each room. They are 8 by 12 inches made 

 of inch boards. The space between two 

 rafters is tightly sealed with boards. At the 

 top of the rafters a box 12 x 16 inches in size 



