THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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A Hutchinson Cellar Completed. 



inside door to the hatchway, it is high time the bees were carried 

 out — usually long' before that here. 



HOW WE ARRANGE THE BEES IN THE CEI.I.AB. 



A\'e tier them up. four and five colonies high, leaving" the covers 

 on and the bottom boards off, letting the bottom ends of each hive 

 rest on sticks about an inch thick to raise it up from the one below 

 and give space for ventilation and dead bees to drop out. We pile 

 a row along each side and across the back end. next the cellar wall, 

 leaving the front end next the door to pile the l:)ottom boards. Then 

 we pile another row far enough away from the first row to leave 

 an alley wide enough so a person can walk through it, thus giving 

 an opportunity to examine any colony in the cellar from the bottom 

 of the hive. "\\'e leave the center aisle open the whole length of 

 the cellar, as it gives a better draft from the hatchway to the \-enti- 

 lator at the back end of the cellar. 



VENTILATION AND TEMPERATURE. 



In the light sandy soil here in Xorthern Michigan we are able 

 to get all the ventilation necessary by means of an opening about 

 2x3 feet throuph the floor overhead near the back end of the cellar. 



