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Unskilled labor will lay these loose stone walls, and they told the writer that 

 they found by experience that but very little slope was necessary to make a wall 

 of this description stand. 



The hatchway is also built of stone the same as the rest of the cellar, and is 

 enclosed with double doors. A novel feature of this cellar is the covering, which 

 is of logs. Their cellars are in the forest, or what used to be a forest before the 

 suitable timber for lumber was cut and taken off. The logs for the cover are cut 

 four to six feet longer than the width of the cellar and are laid close together 

 forming a complete cover to the cellar, thus forming a frame-work to hold the 

 marsh hay that "chinks"' up the openings ready for the sand covering, which is 

 scraped on with a team. 



The sand cover is about three feet deep when complete, or enough cover to 

 turn any frost that is likely to penetrate. When this is done a substantial cover 

 is built over all to turn the water and keep the cellar dry. 



"Fairy tales" are told of the crops of comb honey gathered by the bees win- 

 tered in these cellars. Hubbard Bros, are invited to describe their method of 

 management in the production of comb honey for the pages of the Review'. 



A considerable number of the Hutchinson covers are of the Heddon-Blanton 

 type. They are a perfectly flat board with cleated ends. Were a hive set directly 

 upon this cover it would be entirely closed, thus the necessity of the inch square 

 sticks placed between the hives for ventilation when tiered up in the cellar. 

 Covers with sloping sides ma}' not need these sticks, as the cover below would 

 furnish ample ventilation for the hive above. 



Attention is called to the low temperature of 34 degrees in the cellar, and 

 successful wintering. The conditions necessary for success being "a very dry 

 cellar, good stores, and a plenty of good healthy bees." A thought comes in here 

 that may be worth considering in the cellar wintering of bees, i. e., the drier the 

 cellar the lower the temperature that will winter successfully. Admitting this to 

 be a fact would be no argument against the dry cellar and a high temperature, 

 for it would be the equal or better than the damp cellar, no matter what the tem- 

 perature. Likely the greatest drawback to the damp cellar is it will not stand a 

 low temperature for anj' great length of time without bad results. 



We are wintering in our big cellar in Charlevoix Co. without loss with a tem- 

 perature of from 46 to 56 degrees, while Hutchinson's cellar winters equally as 

 well with a temperature of 34 degrees, which goes to show that the temperature 

 of a bee cellar is of secondary consideration, strong colonies with a plenty of 

 good store being the prime requisite. — Townsend.] 



Feeding for Winter Stores. 



DAVID RUNNING. 



' ■■ Jl N our localit}', where otir entire crop of siirpkis honey is 

 Jl secured from v.'hite and alsike clover, and the flow stops about 

 July 15, it is necessary to feed for winter stores. \Vhile our 

 bees usually get a little honey in August and September, they sel- 

 dom get enough to last them through the winter. AVe are producers 

 of extracted honey only, and we use the eight-frame Langstroth 

 hive entirely. As soon as the crop is extracted we start looking 

 over our bees and getting them in shape for winter. 



SEE THAT EACH COI.ONY IS HEADED WITH A GOOD QUEEN. 



At this time we want to see that each colony is headed with 

 a good queen and has sufficient stores to last well into September. 

 Each colony is left with one extracting super above queen excluder, 



