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A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



Devoted to tl^e Interests of Hoiqey Producers. 



$L00 A YEAR. 



W. Z. HOTCfliMSON, Editor and Proprietor. 



VOL XII, FLINT. MICHIGAN, FEBRUARY 10, 1900. NO. 2. 



HP I A R Y. HONEY - HOUSE, 

 CELLAR, AND METHODS, 

 USED IX PRODUCING EX- 

 TRACTED HOXEY. BY 

 HERBERT CLUTE. 



Mv apiary is located on a side-hill. It 

 was "graded down to nearly a level, by 

 cutting down 3"^ 

 feet on the upper 

 side and filling in 

 nearly as much 

 on the lower side. 

 This gives a gen- 

 tle slant towards 

 the outer side. 

 I have taken 

 some pains to 

 make the yard 

 attractive by 

 planting lilac 

 bushes around it. I also have some flower 

 beds, i Morning glories can be seen run- 

 ning up over the front of the bee-cellar. 

 — F^.) 



The honey -house is 18 x 30, and two 

 stories high. The upper story is used for 

 storing empty barrels, chaff cushions, 

 empty supers, combs, etc. I use a Van- 

 Allen & Williams extractor that will ex- 

 tract four Langstrolh combs at one time. 

 It is set about eight t c^jt to the left of one 



corner of the room, upon a bench that is 

 twelve inches high. Between the ex- 

 tractor and the corner of the room is 

 another bench two feet high that extends 

 clear to the corner of the room. In this 

 bench, between the extractor and the 

 comer of the room, is a hole cut through, 

 and a tub set on the floor below the open- 

 ing. The uncapping is done on the 

 bench, by this opening, and the cappings 

 drop through into the tub. From 

 the same corner of the room, but extend- 

 ing in the other direction, is another 

 bench, two feet high, in which there is 

 built a sink for holding two wash-dishes 

 and a water pail. The "strainer-barrel" 

 into which the honey is poured stands on 

 a bench three feet in height. By having 

 two benches running from the same cor- 

 ner, the muss and work is all kept in a 

 small compass, and by the use of a little 

 water and a broom it is easy to keep the 

 floor clean. Before we had this building 

 to work in, we extracted in a little "shan- 

 ty," and it was difficult to keep the floor 

 and everything clean. The odor from the 

 honey thus exposed would sometimes so 

 arouse the bees that it seemed as though 

 they would tear the whole building down 

 in trying to get in. It aroused them to 

 robbing. Since getting this new house, 

 and keeping the floor and everything 



