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quite a draft especially on windy days, even if there is no 

 fire, but our vertical pipe — a common stove-pipe serves 

 excellently well — connects simply with a chimney which 

 projects above the house. Such an arrangement not only 

 controls the temperature but ventilates the cellar. A large 

 cistern full of water or water running through a cellar deep 

 imder ground is a wonderful moderator and will surely 

 keep the temperature at the proper point. It is imperative 

 that every bee-keeper have a thermometer in his cellar and 

 by frequent examination know that the temperature is at 

 the proper point. Unless he finds that he cannot control 

 the temperature without, he better not go to the expense of 

 either sub-earth ventilation or a cistern. 



Dr. C. C. Miller keeps a small coal stove burning with 

 open door in each cellar, and thus keeps the temperature 

 just as he desires. My brother keeps as many bees in his 

 house cellar with no such pains or labor, and yet is as suc- 

 cessful as is Dr. Miller. The thing to remember is, we 

 must control the temperature. 



I commence preparation for winter as soon as the first 

 frost shows that the harvest is over. I then put five Lang- 

 stroth or seven Gallup frames at one side or end of the hive 

 •where they are to remain for the winter. If these have not 

 enough food I feed till they have. If other frames have brood 

 I put these close beside; and remove them as soon as the 

 Tarood has all matured, and close up the other frames by use 

 of a division board. I now cover all with a cloth and with a 

 super of chaff or dry sawdust. For the past two years I 

 have left all the combs in very strong colonies and covered 

 simply with a board, and these colonies have done well. 

 In a good cellar bees need no packing about or above the 

 brood chamber. 



Before cold weather — any time from the first to the 

 middle of November — the bees are carried into the cellar. 

 This better be done carefully, so as not to disturb the bees. 

 Yet I am not sure that such disturbance is any special injury. 

 To prevent the bees from coming out in case of disturbance 

 the entrance blocks must close the entrances. Dr. Miller 

 uses wet cloths to effect this. 



In the cellar the hives should rest a foot from the bottom 



