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stove in it, and kept a low fire in it whenever necessary to keep 

 the temperature up to 45 degrees. It seerns a little strange ,,that 

 after 17 years of success you should have a failure three years in 

 succession. Like enough the tide will now turn, and you will 

 again have good success. In my earlier years of beekeeping, i 

 had experience as bad as yours, but by sticking to it I've made 

 quite a lot of money from the bees since. 



Q. If bees are put into a cellar under the kitchen, would the 

 noises incident to the kitchen-work— running a \\asher, bringing 

 in wood, constant walking, etc.— be a detriment to the bees, pro- 

 vided the hives were not jarred by any of these various opera- 

 tions? 



A. I cannot speak with entire positiveness ; but I have never 

 noted any bad results from noises overhead (although I never had 

 anything very bad in that line), and never heard of it from 

 others, so I don't believe you need take into account the matter of 

 noise, but put your bees in the place that gives you the best tem- 

 perature and ventilation, providing there is any difference. 



Q. Suppose a cellar is full of bees. Is it good or bad for the 

 health of those who live in the rooms above the bees? 



A. That depends on the beekeeper. If he's a poor bee- 

 keeper he will likely have a cellar with foul air and dead bees, and 

 his cellar will be bad to live over. If the beekeeper is all right, 

 the cellar will be kept clean, with pure air. The air in my cellar 

 is as good as, or better than, the air in the living-rooms, for the 

 cellar door is more or less open nearly all the time. 



Cellaring Bees. — Q. Will you give me some light on how to 

 carry bees into tlie cellar without the bees flying out and sting- 

 ing? For years it has been a mystery to me how to carry bees in, 

 and sometimes out, without closing the entrances. Is there a 

 dilTcrencc in bees, handling, location, or what? I am curious to 

 know. 



A. I will tell you just as nearly as I can just how my bees 

 were carried into the cellar last year. They were carried in, No- 

 vember 25. in the morning. The cellar had been wide open the 

 night before. Although that does not make much difference at 

 carrying in as it does at carrying out, still it is better to have the 

 cellar cuol, su the bees will settle down quietly when brought in. 

 The average distance of the hi\cs from the cellar door was about 

 ten and one-half rods. Then they were carried a rod or so fur- 

 ther to their place in the inner room. Two able-bodied men took 

 about two hours to carry in the 93 colonies. One of them was e.x- 



