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Advanced Bcc Culture. 



bees gather about the door, and rush in when it is opened. We made a 

 big smudge and set it in the doorway, and it enabled us to work with 

 very few bees getting in ; but when the wind blew toward the cellar 

 we had to give it up. Then we took the honey off after the bees had 

 stopped fl>'ing at night and stacked it up in the cellar ; then there was 

 so little going in and out that we managed it. 



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Covering Floor with Sawdust Before Putting on Roof. 



HOW THE J'.EES "sleep" IN SUCH A CEEEAR. 



Come with nic to my bee-cellar, up in the edge of the woods. 

 What's the temperature outside? Twelve degrees above zero. I'll 

 unlock the little door in the gable end of the roof. We crawl in, but 

 can't stand upright, as the roof is ton low. The dry, planer shavings 

 and sawdust that cover the ceiling to the cellar, a foot and a half deep, 

 come clear up and meet the roof and lap on it a foot or more down 

 at the eaves. The roof overhead, and the boards of the gable ends are 

 covered with frost from the moisture that has come up through the hatch- 

 way that opens down into the cellar below. We'll crawl alone to that 

 hatchway. What a wdiiff of warm air comes up through it. Listen. Not 

 a sound comes up from below. There's a pile of hives of combs just below 

 this opening, and, b\- dropping down upon them we get into the cellar ; 



