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of exceeding importance, and I 

 wish to submit my drawings and 

 reasons for this plan for criticism, 

 tliat we may secnre the very best. 

 The house is three stories — a cellar 

 7 feet deep ; first fioor 8 feet and 

 chamber feet at tlie lowest part. 

 The cellar is for wintering bees; 

 the rooms above are for honey-ex- 

 tracting and shop ; the chamber is 

 for storage. The cellar has two 

 rooms. One, for bees in winter, 

 is 18 X 24 feet. This is entirelj- 



ground sub-earth ventilation-pipe 

 which runs two hundred feet or 

 more underground. Thus this pipe 

 of four-inch glazed tile serves for 

 sub-earth ventilation, ovorllow- 

 pipe for a cellar cistern, and it can 

 lie made to empty the cistern and 

 cool the bee cellar at any time, the 

 water passing through the small 

 gutter. 



In the other room of the cellar, 

 which is 8 x 24 feet, there is a cis- 

 tern 8 X 14 feet and 5 feet hisfh. 



Cellar, 7 feet high, 

 grouted on the bot- 

 tom, and plastered 

 with water-lime or 

 ceiled above. 



30 leet, outside ineasur 



FiCx. 1. 



D, 4 ft. double doors. 



I, gutter. 



J, stouo wall 4'j, or all the way uii. 



L, double wall lined with i)aper. 



M, iiawsage way from cellar, witli stone 

 abutments on each side aufl level with out- 

 side, so a wheelbarrow can be run in and 

 out. 



(), drain of f;-incli tile— Pr. ]\[iller says 10 - 

 in(>h— I'ollowing the dott(!d nnes two hundred 

 feet, and aM the way lielow frost or variable 

 tenip('rature mark. 



W, cellar windows, 1 x 2.^ ft., double, outer 

 glass and innei' wood. Both are hinged 

 above so as to oi>on it easilv. 



under ground, with a good stone 

 wall, grouted below and plastered 

 above, with a double tloor grouted 

 between — to secure against mice 

 and cold alike and with the parti- 

 tion wall double with double doors. 

 At the centre of the partition wall 

 a small chimney runs from the bot- 

 tom of the cellar up to and through 

 the roof. Just within the wall of 

 this room is a small gutter which 

 extends nearly around the room, 

 as seen in the drawing, from one 

 end of a cistern to the under- 



As will be seen, this extends two 

 feet into the bee cellar, yet the 

 partition is tight, except a small 

 hole just at the bottom, so we rainy 

 say we have two cisterns — one a 

 small one in the bee cellar, the 

 other a large one in the other cel- 

 lar, though they are connected at 

 the bottom. The other room, 

 which is a sort of vestibnle for the 

 liec cellar, has two windows — one 

 (1x2) by two feet and stairs to 

 the room above which arc covered 

 by double trap-doors. This room is 



