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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



Of course, no very pretentious build- 

 ings are built at these mountain apiaries. 

 A cabin, or "shack," large enough for a 

 bed, table, stove, chair or two, and a few 

 provisions and cooking utensils, consti- 

 tutes the home, and then there is a little 

 house for extracting. Tli?re is no great 

 necessity for a store room for the honey. 

 It runs directly from the extractor into a 

 great galvanized iron tank perhaps six 



rels for storage and shipping. The cost 

 of tins for storage and shipping is some- 

 thing enormous. These cases of honey 

 can be stacked up out of doors, as it does 

 not rain, and protected from the sun by 

 beiug covered with boards. There is not 

 much danger of loss by thieves. No one 

 is going to travel several miles, in the 

 night, up into a mountain canyon, to 

 steal what honey he can eat, or even 



EXTRACTING HOUSE OF M H. MENDELSON. 



Notice the pipe that conveys the honey from the extracting house to the storage tanks. As one 

 tank becomes full, the pipe can be changed to another. In the foreground is a i>ile of extracted 

 honey ready for market. 



feet high and six feet wide. When one 

 tank is filled, the pipe is changed to an- 

 other and the work goes merrily on. 

 After the honey has stood a few days, un- 

 til it is thoroughly settled, the scum is 

 taken off the top, and the honey drawn 

 off into the 6o-pound jacketed tins. Most 

 of them use two tins in a case. By the 

 way, several bee-keepers are this year 

 trying the experiment of using a few bar- 



what he could carry. Probably not one 

 person in a thousand knows that there is 

 any honey or any apiary there. 



A VISIT TO R.\MBLER'S old APIARY. 



When I was in California I visited the 

 apiary that the late lamented Rambler 

 owned near lyos Angeles. It is now owned 

 and managed by the Schaffner Bros., who 

 live in Los Angeles. While there it al- 

 most seemed as though I was treading on 



