FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



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and no coal to put in them — indeed, no prospect of getting 

 any, and winter close at hand. 



About that time my friend. E. R. Root, happened to 

 be here, and strongly advised as the best way out of the di- 

 lemma to have a furnace put in — one big enough to heat 

 the whole house, and of such character as to burn wood, 

 green or dry, coal, hard or soft, and indeed anything hav- 

 hw anv inclination toward combustibilitv. I followed his 



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advice, or rather I outran it, for I got a larger furnace 

 than he thought advisable, the fire-pot being 2T inches in 

 diameter. I am not sorry the furnace is so large so far as 

 heating the house is concerned, for it makes a delightful 

 summer temperature in any part of the house, no matter 

 how cold the weather, without any of that unpleasant and 

 unwholesome burnt-air effect. But it made a matter of 

 impossibility for me to think of keeping the temperature 

 of the bee-room down to 45 degrees and since that time, 

 instead of having to make an effort to keep the cellar 



