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THOUSAND ANSWERS 41A. It ought to be a capital place. Without letting light intothe cellar you should keep it open enough to have the air alwaysfresh, not cooling it below 45 degrees.Q. Will a cellar containing vegetables, potatoes, etc., be agood place to winter bees? Would the odor from the vegetableshurt the bees?A. That depends. If, like too many cellars, with a lot of decayedvegetables and the air foul and moldy, the bees will not doFig. 10. A bee-cellar conveniently located to the apiary. The upper part isused as a honey and super storage room.well. If the cellar is kept as clean as it should be for civilizedbeings to live over, the bees will not object to the odor of thevegetables.Q. Is there any way to keep a cellar dry enough for beeswhen the thermometer is only 38 degrees, Fahr.? I lost all mybees the last three winters. I think it must be because of thedampness and the cold. What can I do to keep it warm and dry?We have had bees for the last twenty years, and have been successfuluntil the spring of 1908, when we lost all.A. Putting lime in the cellar will help to keep it dry. But at38 degrees, the cold may be more to blame than the dampness.For years, before there was a furnace in my cellar. I kept a small