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can be liuilt of luml:)cr or it mav be mr.dc bv hanging- to the joist 

 a carpet or a bhuiket to form a small apartment. If a large nuniljcr 

 of colonics are to be wintered it will require a large space. Kach 

 colony should have lo cubic feet, or ],500 cubic feet for each 100 

 colonies. 



To Prepare the Cellar for the Bees. 



\\'c should build a bench 10 or 12 inches high to set the liives on. 

 This may be accomplished by placing empty supers on the cellar 

 flpor in a row along one side of the cellar. Place them with the 

 end to the wall. A block or a brick should be placed under the end 

 farthest from the wall. The hives of bees are carried into the cellar 

 and placed on the benches or sunei-s, usuallv four hives high, 

 alwavs placing the entrance next to the wall. In this position it 

 will prevent a light from shining into the entrance on entering the 

 cellar with a lamp or lantern. 



When on^ row of hives is in place a second row of hives mav 

 be placed in the same manner as the first row. 



Carryino; the Bees Into the Cellar 



Tt is best to carry the bees into the cellar on a cool day. Select 

 a day just after the bees have had a fly. The hives should be dry. 

 The bottom boards may be left on or off ; I prefer to let them 

 remain on. 



I remove the cover board and place two or three thicknesses of 

 carpet over the top of the hive. In tiering- the hives up in the 

 cellar, a hive should not set flat on the carpet on the hive below it. 

 If the bottom boards have cleats or sills on them they will be all 

 right, as the needed space will be left. 



If the hive bottom is a flat one, then small strips of wood about 

 one inch thick placed above the carpet will give a proper space 

 between the two hives. 



The cellar w'ndows and doors should be left onen the first 

 night after setting the bees into the cellar. Giving plenty of fresh 

 air with a low temperature will cause the bees to form a cluster in 

 their winter nest. 



The Future of Michigan Bee-Keeping. 



By E. D. TOWNSEND, Northstar, Mich. 



Read at the Michigan State Meet at Saginaw, December, 1911. 



^ HERE is no way to judge of the future, only as we compare 

 4J^ it with the past. In writing of the future of Michigan bee- 

 keeping, I do not think I can do better than touch some of 

 the "high spots" of my 36 years bcc-keeping in, thi.^ stalX; --J-H t^yi^^ 



State Plant Board cf ^"'^\;;^ 



