AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



669 



Where the bees are depended upon to 

 keep up the temperature of the place 

 they are in during very cold weather, it 

 is very liable to be too warm during a 

 mild spell in late winter or early spring, 

 which causes more trouble in cellar- 

 wintering than all else combined, as the 

 bees will become uneasy and start brood- 

 rearing at such times in spite of the 

 opening of doors and windows at night, 

 carrying in ice, etc., which can be done, 

 besides when bees must "burn" honey 

 to warm their hives and the room they 



decaying bees is very offensive to me, 

 whether offensive to the bees or not. To 

 overcome this I evenly scatter a two 

 bushel bag of sawdust over the floor 

 every month, which not only keeps 

 down all offensive smell, and prevents 

 crushing the dead bees on the floor, but 

 absorbs much of the moisture thrown off 

 the bees as well. 



Since using the sawdust as above, I 

 can say that I am perfectly satisfied 

 with my cellar. — Review. 



Borodino, N. Y., Oct. 4, 1892. 



Outside View of Doolittle's Bee-Cellar. 



are in, it causes a great loss of stores 

 and vitality. 



Mr. Hutchinson would not have the 

 floor of the bee-cellar cemented. Neither 

 would I ; but there are bees dying of old 

 age all the while, in any colony, and 

 where many colonies are wintered in any 

 cellar, these old bees coming out on the 

 cellar-bottom to die, as they always do 

 with the above temperature, make the 

 bottom of the cellar very unpleasant to 

 walk on, besides the foul smell from 



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