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VOL. XV. FLINT, MICHIGAN, SEPT. 10, 1902. NO. 9. 



AN OUT-DOOR BEE-GELLAR. 



PA' T. F. BINGHAM. 



A Gheaply Built but Substantial Bee Gellar that Ans- 

 wers every Purpose as a Winter Repository. 



T suppose promises never outlaw, hence, 

 J- I am expected to describe my cement 

 cellar. It is a rectangular excavation, 

 twenty-one feet square and six and one- 

 half feet deep, on level ground. The 

 hottoni is four feet smaller than the top. 

 The walls, or sides, slope about two feet 

 on either of the four sides. The taper or 

 slope renders it possible to dig a hole in 

 our sand without its caving, if promptly 

 secured. Otherwise the sides would soon 

 run down and fill the excavation. No 

 stone or brick are used in its construction. 

 The sides are Portland cement less than 

 an inch thick. The floor is an inch thick. 

 Both floor and sides are simply plastered 

 with cement put on with a trowel, The 

 cellar is now three years old, and as sound 

 and mouse-proof as ever. 



DETAir^ OF CONSTRUCTION. 





The plates on which the roof and joists 

 rest are two-inch plank one foot wide laid 

 flatwise in soft cement It will now be 

 apparent that this excavation is complete 



and mouse-proof up to the top of the four 

 plates or sills. The rafters are i6 feet 

 long, making a sharp gable roof which is 

 made of inch boards, unplaned, and of 

 two thicknesses — or wide battens. The 

 boards should have been one foot wide, 

 all one width, and laid close together. 

 Such a roof is cheap, and will last a long 

 time — perhaps ten years or more. 



The ceiling over the cellar is of unplan- 

 ed inch boards, two thicknesses, and 

 covered with dr}^ sawdust three inches 

 deep. 



HOW THE CELLAR IS VENTILATED. 



Running from this ceiling up through 

 the ridge is a board flue or ventilator, 17 

 inches square and 16 feet high. This has 

 been ample during all cold weather — but 

 is not sufficient for the warm days of early 

 soring, and I have put in two the size and 

 height of the first one. Each of these 

 flues raise their air from between two 

 joists having lumber nailed to their un- 

 der sides, covering a space of four feet. 



