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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



Mr. R. H. Rhodes, of Platteville, Colorado, has used double walled hives some, 

 and he tells me that they are not so satisfactory and he has abandoned using 

 them— W. F.] 



The Successful Wintering of Bees. 



How the Cellar is Built, With a Work-shop Overhead, at a Nom- 

 inal Cost. 



A. D. D. WOOD. 



* — A WAY back in the SO's, when I first began to take financial 

 ^Xv interest in the bee. I began to wonder how I could winter 

 them year after year and be successful. About that time 

 Prof. A. J. Cook was very enthusiastic on sub-earth ventilated bee- 

 cellars, and I fell victim to the idea and built one according to his 

 plans. It worked all right as he predicted. But did we need the 

 sub-earth ventilator? No, I don't think we did. I used this cellar 

 as long as I stayed "down on the farm" in Jackson County, ]\Iichi- 

 gan, and after moving to Lansing", ]\Iich., I had to use any old 

 place I could find. Here at home I wintered part in the cellar under 

 the dwelling and part packed outdoors. The difiference was alwa\^s 

 in favor of the cellar and at times there was as much as a foot of 

 water in it, and I have had to wear rubber boots at times in carry- 

 ing out the bees in the spring. The temperature would range all 



Exterior View of Work Shop and Bee Cellar of A. D. D. Wood. 



