. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 22 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW the ceiling to the cellar7 a foot anda 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 hatchway that opens down into the cellar below. We'll crawl along to that hatchway. What a whiff 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, by dropping down upon them we get into the cell
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 22 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW the ceiling to the cellar7 a foot anda 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 hatchway that opens down into the cellar below. We'll crawl along to that hatchway. What a whiff 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, by dropping down upon them we get into the cellar; but, before going down, let's light this candle. A candle is safer and better than a lamp. The light is not so bright btowmg through' the "tops 'of talf pines.' â First, let's look at the thermometer. , bulb 45 degrees, wet bulb, 42. That's good. There was only one degree differ- ence when the bees were first put in the cellar, but a barrel of lime put into eight or ten pails and set around in different parts of the cellar soon dried out the air. No, there are no bottom boards on the hive, nor any covers. The tops of the frames are covered with two thicknesses of old carpet. Let's turn up the corners of some of these pieces of carpet. See the little yellow fellows tucked away there so snug, row after row between the white combs. See how quiet they are, how slim, how clean. If they stir at all. The Bee Cellar in the Edge of the WoodsâFlint, Mich. and does not seem to disturb the bees in the least. They will not leave the cluster and fly at it as they will at a bright lamp light. Now we are down m the cellar. Listen again. Yes, there is a faint murmur; like a cataract miles and miles away--like the soft winds at night it simply is to slowly raise a wing, or a leg or the point of the abdomen. Let's look under a hive. Is there any sight in bee keeping more beautiful than that? See that great, golden-brown cluster of bees hanging down beneath the combs until it act
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