248 WINTERING. 
BEST ARRANGEMENT OF A CELLAR. 
The part to be used for the storage of the bees should 
be directly beneath a room where a fire is regularly kept. 
The cellar bottom should be well laid with hydraulic ce- 
ment, and the walls plastered and pointed with the same. 
This cement prevents moisture from passing into the 
cellar. A cellar should be most thoroughly dried when 
thus prepared with cement, before bees are placed in it. 
I have known very serious results ensue where this pre- 
caution was not observed. It is sometimes needful to 
place a stove in the wintering apartment, connecting it 
with the stove-pipe above by means of the ventilating 
pipe, and keep a constant fire for a month, in order to 
bring it to a fit condition for use. 
The room: should be closely partitioned off with 
matched lumber, so that it will not admit the least ray 
of light. On the sides next to the wall it should be 
ceiled about one foot from it. If this is not done, 
that space, at least, should be left unoccupied. The bees 
would do better in a solid body in the center of the room 
than close to the walls. Fresh air should be brought 
into the room through a window or similar opening by 
means of a tube, or air conductor, made of boards, six or 
eight inches square. Let it extend to the bottom and 
across the room, with holes bofed at frequent intervals, 
the entire length, to distribute the air more evenly to all 
parts of the room, and avoid a current to any one point, 
as even a sudden rush of air is objectionable. <A five-inch 
pipe should start near the bottom of the cellar, pass up 
through the floor, and enter the stove pipe above, as near 
the stove as possible, to afford an escape for cold and im- 
pure air. This may be arranged with a T near the floor 
above, with an aperture to be opened or closed at pleasure 
for the purpose of drawing off the warm air when desired 
from the upper part of the cellar. This ventilating pipe 
