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with the top ; then wc put the rafters on, nail the lioards on the 

 gable ends, then nail on the roof boards and co\ er with tarred felt, 

 then cover the lloor overhead with 12 or 14 inches of sawdust. The 

 most of otir cellars are built 1-lxlG feet, and about T feet deep. We 

 have wintered as many as 165 colonies in each cellar, with good 

 results. To build a cellar of this size, paying $l.oO per day for 

 labor, $'3.50 for man and team, and from $12 to SlG per M. for 

 lumber, will cost from $40 to SoO. 



If the walls were btiilt of stone or cement, it W(nild require a 

 more complicated system of ventilation. AMth an earth floor, board 

 walls and sawdust overhead, the air soaks in slowly from every 

 side and of a tiniform temperature. A hatchway eiL^ht feet long, 

 with doors at each end, wnll answer all purposes for an ante-room. 

 T do not believe a partition through the cellar would be desirable; 

 it would interfere some with the ventilation. 



One man Welshes to know if the sun shining on the roof in the 

 spring w'ould not heat up the cellar enough through the opening in 

 the floor overhead, so the bees would become uneasy. When it gets 

 so warm that the cellar cannot be kept cool enough by opening the 



Getting Ready to Build a Hutchinson Cellar. 



