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KEEPING HOXEY IX GARRET. 



It is well known that a cellar, except in particularly 

 dry localities, is atout the worst place in which to keep 

 honey ; but it is not so well known that the place the 

 farthest removed from the cellar — the garret — is one of 

 the very best places. ^ly mother kept some sections 

 throughout the latter part of summer in a garret, and 

 after enduring the freezing of the following winter they 





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were as fine as when first put there. The roasting heat 

 of the summer in that garret had so ripened the honey 

 as to make it proof against injury from freezing. 



HOXEY IX CELLAR WITH FURXACE. 



I just spoke of a cellar as a poor place for honey 

 except in very dry climates. But a furnace in a cellar 

 makes a big difiference. In 1902 a furnace was put in my 

 cellar. Several winters since then I have piled up sec- 



