FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



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STOVE IN CBLLjiE. 



Whenever the thermometer appears to have any fixed 

 determination to stay below 45 degrees, a fire is started. I 

 would not think of using: an oil-stove, nor any thing of the kind 

 that would allow the gases to escape in the cellar. A chimney 



Fig. KIS — Screwing Down Waf-prfssi. 



goes from the ground up through the house, and a hard-coal 

 stove is used. For many years I used a common small cylinder 

 stove, having an inside diameter of about 8 inches between the 

 fire-brick. Then I used a low-down open or Franklin stove, 

 and I think I like it as well or better. With either stove there 

 is the open fire, and one might fear that the bees would fly into 

 it, but they do not appear to do so. Neither does any harm 



