a L R A N I N G S IN BEE C U L T IT K E 



October 1920 



Iv li. Hufnunui's iipi:i 



the lioiiev Jiouse. 1 uii<lerstaiul th;it Mr. 

 Ildfiuaiin is planning to do this. 



-Minneapolis, Minn. Chas. D. P.lakor. 



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An Ontario Bee Cellar. 



Since the cellar which we built in tlie 

 fall of 1918 has given us good results, per- 

 haps a short description might be appreci- 

 ated by the readers of "Gleanings" who 

 may l)e contemplating building one. 

 Construction of the Cellar. 



It is built in the shape of a box car, and 

 is entirely of cement ejccept the doors and 

 the storehouse above. It is frame and cov- 

 ered with prepared roofing. The inside di 

 mensions of the cellar are thirty feet long, 

 seven feet wide and six to six and a half 

 feet high (the ceiling being arched to make 

 it self supporting). As the ground is level, 

 the cellar is built only halfway in the ground. 

 The cellar wall is so built as to allow about 



, ;it -lunosville, \Vis, 



three feet of <lry earth between it and 

 the cement wall of the workshop, and the 

 cellar is built high enough to allow one and 

 one-half to two feet of planer shavings be- 

 tween the top of the cellar and the floor of 

 the workshop. 



The vestibule is made long enough to al- 

 low the inside door to open out and also 

 give room for four steps. The outside door 

 opens in, and. is made of matched lumber, 

 single ply. The inside door is also of matched 

 lumber, but is double with low grade roof- 

 ing between the two thicknesses of the door; 

 both are tight-fitting. 



A tile drain runs from the front of the 

 door down both sides of the cellar just out- 

 side of the wall where it connects with the 

 drain from the back of the cellar. 



The intake ventilator is a four-inch tile 

 running down the outside wall and entering 

 the cellar at the floor beside the door. At the 

 outside the opening is covered with wire 



Outside view of E. I,. Hofiiiunn's bee cellar at .laiie.vv ille, Wis. 



