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yet what their status will be in that particular. They are still 
more or less on trial. 
Q. I have 20 colonies of bees that I want to breed up to Ital- 
ians or Caucasians. Which would you advise me to breed them 
up to? 
A. Opinions differ; but Italians are so generally preferred 
that you will be safe in adopting them. 
Cedar.— Q. My bees gathered pollen today (March 4), from 
red cedar ,and as I have failed to find cedars referred to as a 
source of honey or pollen, it struck me as something rather un- 
usual. Is that a common occurrence? 
A. It is quite likely that it is nothing unusual, even though 
no mention may have been made of it. It is only the plants from 
which unusual quantities of either honey or pollen are obtained 
that are generally mentioned as honey-plants. 
Cellars for Bees. — Q. I wish to build a bee-cellar to hold 200 
colonies. I intend to build it in a side hill and have it entirely 
under-ground, and cover it with a roof, then 3 feet of earth, then 
a roof over this to keep the earth dry. How large would you 
build it? 
A. Ten cubic feet for each colony is not far out of the way. 
Q. Would you make any special arrangements for ventila- 
tion? If so, how would you arrange the ventilators? The sides 
and ends will be built of stone and mortar. 
A. It might be a good plan for you to have a ventilator, be- 
cause it is easy to provide one when building, and not so easy 
afterward, and if you find you are better off without it you need 
not use it. T. F. Bingham had a repository not so entirely under- 
ground, and he believed in a ventilator 16 inches square. A plain 
board pipe from near the ground up will answer. 
Q. My cellar floor is concrete and is always damp. I am 
thinking of covering it with four inches of dry sawdust. What 
do you think about it? I wintered 106 colonies in this cellar 
without a loss in 1914, but the covers and bottoms were very damp 
in the spring. I gave the bees all the ventilation possible, accord- 
ing to the weather, and the temperature stood at about 45 degrees 
on top and 42 degrees below. 
A. I’m afraid the sawdust will not do a great deal of good. 
Possibly it might if you should sweep it up and dry it out as fast 
as it got wet. Lime might do more good. 
Q. My cellar (28x30 feet) has a hot water boiler in it. The 
temperature varies from 48 to 52 degrees. Do you think I can 
winter a dozen colonies of bees in it successfully? 
