294 FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



STOVE IN CELLAR. 



Whenever the thermometer aj^pears 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 tlie gases to escape in the cellar. A chimney 



Fig. lOS — Screiving Dmvn Wax-press. 



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 tlie 

 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 



