THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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readers ma,}^ form more accurate 

 conclusions as to results. My 

 building faces the west, and the 

 black spots show the location of the 

 chimneys. 



The room marked A represents 

 the cellar under a living room 

 where a continuous fire is kept. A 

 six inch pipe leads from tiie top of 

 this room to the stove-pipe above. 



pipe from the stove below enters 

 the chimney in the small passage 

 leading to this room. 



I shall arrange my bees for the 

 winter as follows. 



In the room A, I shall place ten 

 stocks in twelve-frame Quinby 

 hives, seventeen stocks in eight- 

 frame Langstroth hives and seven 

 stocks in eight-frame Quinb}' hives. 



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The room is ceiled with matched 

 boards and a space of 18 inches is 

 left from the partition to the wall. 

 The collar bottom is all cemented ; 

 size of this room is 16 by 9 feet 

 and 6J- feet high. The cellar win- 

 dows on the north and south side 

 are loosely packed with straw so 

 that air is admitted freely. 



Room B represents a room on 

 the second floor over a kitchen 

 where a fire will not be kept all of 

 the time. This room is 11 by 8 

 and 8 feet high ; it is ceiled, and a 

 space of four inches in the inside 

 walls and of eight inches next the 

 outside is packed with sawdust, 

 with sawdust overhead. 



In the centre of the top is an 

 opening 15 inches square for ven- 

 tilation. Tliis is arranged to be 

 closed or partly so if desired. The 



In room i?, I shall place nine 

 stocks in twelve-frame Quinby 

 hives, eleven in eight-frame Lang- 

 stroth hives, six in eight-frame 

 Quinby hives and one in an old- 

 fasl'ioned cone-shaped straw hive. 

 I shall pack on the summer-stands 

 two stocks in Quinbj^ frames and 

 two in hanging frames ; also place 

 one stock in my attic and one 

 in a warm place where it can be fed 

 with liquid food. I make this 

 statement as the basis of a series 

 of experiments. I shall give re- 

 ports in each number of the "Amer- 

 ican Apiculturist" during the com- 

 ing winter and spring. As will be 

 seen in the articles to follow some 

 of these stocks are composed of 

 single colonies, others are doubled, 

 one is composed of five colonies 

 united. I shall weigh a number of 



