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this fall, and don't think of any changes 

 that will be made. As mentioned last 

 month, we used one of them as an ex- 

 tracting- room, and the most serious ob- 

 jection is that the bees gather about the 

 door, when we are extracting after the 

 close of the season. We could use a glass 

 door instead of one of wire cloth, only it 

 would shut off the ventilation. The bees 

 gather about the door, and rush in when 



put in as soon as the cellars were finished, 

 yet the bees wintered perfectly. 1 men- 

 tion this, as I have seen cautions about 

 attempting to winter bees in new cellars 

 the idea being that they ought to have a 

 chance to dry out. It is possible that 

 there might be something in this with a 

 stiff, damp, clay soil, but there is nothing 

 in it with a dry sandy soil. 



Since the foregoing was put in type. 





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Putting up the Frame and Boarding up the Sides. 



it is opened. We made a big smudge and 

 set it in the doorway, and it enabled us to 

 work with very few bees getting in. b«t 

 when the wind blew towards the cellar 

 we had to give it up. Then we took the 

 honey off after the bees had stopped fly- 

 ing at night, and stacked it up in the cel- 

 lar; then there was so little going in and 

 out that we managed it. 



WINTERING BEES IN A NEWLY-BmLT CELLAR 



These cellars were built late in the sea- 

 son. October and November, and the bees 



Mr. 0. H. Townsend, of Otsego, Michigan, 

 has written me a letter asking some 

 questions. Among other things he wishes 

 to know if a cellar in a loose sandy soil 

 might not be all right without any special 

 ventilation. It might, possibly, so far as 

 purity of the atmosphere is concerned, but 

 with 150 or 200 colonies in a 14x16 ft. 

 cellar, there must be some provision for 

 the heat to pass off. Even with the upper 

 ventilator open, we found it necessary to 

 keep open the inside door of the hatchway. 



Flint, Mich., Aug. 23, 1907, 



