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cellar, whether it is to be a permanent structure to last a life- 

 time, or perhaps only eight or ten years, or whether one wishes to 

 build as cheaply as possible and still have a cellar that will give 

 good results in wintering while it lasts. 



For wintering bees in, my choice every time where there is a 

 dry soil to build in, is a cellar with board sides, a board floor over- 

 head, covered with 14 or 15 inches of sawdust with a good roof over- 

 head, and earth floor. Such a cellar with a few repairs occasionally 

 will last for twelve or fifteen years. 



My system of ventilation would be a hole through the floor 

 overhead that could be opened and closed as was needed, and an in- 

 side door to the hatchway that could be opened and closed as was 

 needed to control the temperature and give ventilation as needed. 



As to a cement floor being better to clean up the dead bees on, 

 I very seldom ever have enough dead bees on the cellar bottom that 

 I need to clean them out, until after the bees are carried out in the 

 spring, then I use a shovel to scrape them all up in a pile and wheel 

 them out in a wheelbarrow. It does not matter if you do remove a 

 little of the earth with them. 



How I Ship Honey by Parcel Post 



C. F. PERRY, South Woodstock, Vt. 



I use an open mouth pint jar made of flint glass Si/g inches 

 high and 31/2 inches in diameter. 



I use four thicknesses of paper to wrap around the jar, say 

 from such papers as Green's Fruit Grower which would make four 

 sheets 10%xl5i4 ^o^^ around jar so paper will be about 2% inches 

 beyond each end of the jar. Now double the paper over the ends of 

 the jar making about four folds as you would in doing up a box. 

 Don't try to do a smooth job as you want these folds of paper to 

 act as a spring. Wind a string around and tie so as to hold paper 

 in place. 



The Box 



The ends are of % inch stock 5 inches long and 5V2 inches high. 

 The sides are of 3-16 inch stock 614 inches long and 5V-2 inches high, 

 top and bottom are same stock 614 inches long and 5% inches wide. 

 When nailed up this makes a box SVo inches deep, 5 inches wide and 

 5% inches long inside. 



To Pack 



Put an inch and a half of straw in bottom of box, lay in jar 



