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tain, before winter has come, that all are provided with 
thirty-pounds each of good honey, and they are provided for 
a four month’s repose. 
HOUSE FOR WINTERING BEES, 
Mr. W. L. Drake has invented a triple-walled house for 
this purpose, and to be used for a dairy house in summer. 
The house is built of brick. The illustration gives an end 
view of the house, with door closed and air-supply drafts 
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Fia. 107.—Triple- Wall Winter Bee House. 
open. O, gives a view with the corner bricks removed, 
exposing the air-spaces in the wal]. The outer air-space 
completely envelopes the middle and inner brick wall, and is 
intended for a circulating air chamber. The inner space isa 
dead-air chamber, completely enveloping the inner wall, and 
entirely disconnected from the outer air chamber. Hisa 
flue connecting with the body of the room, for the purpose of 
