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the vinegar and storage-room. This opens 

 the entire width of the building into the 

 work-shop. If we go up the steps shown 

 in the work-shop, we go through a door in 

 the screened wall o{ the extracting and 

 honey packing room. From this we can 

 go up into the honey-can storage-room 

 above, and again from this latter into 

 the out-of-the-way storage-room still fur- 

 ther on. 



I (have considered the matter of getting 

 as much under one roof as possible, and 



room, nor the same room used for first 

 one or the other, or both, as this is very 

 unsatisfactory. 



Since I have the honey-house part of 

 the building elevated a little 'higher than 

 the height of my honey-wagons (to save 

 lifting the honey when it is brought in 

 from the apiaries, or when hauled out to 

 be shipped away), there is left some room 

 underneath this, making a nice storage- 

 room for whatever is used in the shop ; 

 and as access to this portion of the build- 

 ing from the shop is on the same level, 

 and easy, it is very handy. 



The same holds with the connection be- 

 tween the extracting and packing-room, 

 and the can-storage room. The honey- 

 cans can be gotten down from this place 

 very easily whenever they are wanted, as 

 the entire wddth of the building is left 

 open at the place where these two rooms 



meet. For anything that me do not need 

 so often the uppermost room is used. 



The entire building is 14 feet wide and 

 24 feet long, by 18 feet high. These di- 

 mensions can be either increased or de- 

 creased as the demands of the bee-keepers' 

 needs require. Such a building has served 

 my purpose for several years, or up to 300 

 colonies. I could use a larger house now, 

 since I have spread out with an added 

 number of apiaries, but instead of doing 

 this, I will build another house just like 

 the one at another place, to take care of 

 part of the yards there. I term this place 

 my sub-'headquarters and take care of a 

 circle of yards from this point that are 

 too remote for the house at home. In 

 this way I save a great deal of extra haul- 

 ing and driving, which, especially when 

 long distances are taken into considera- 

 tion, means a great deal. 



3.— Shutter Mechanism Partly Closed. 



that for two reasons: First, to save on 

 the cost as much as possible ; and, sec- 

 ond, because I believe in having every- 

 thing as handy as possible, and that is 

 obtained by having all these things under 

 one roof as I have arranged them in the 

 construction of the house here shown. 



Since I have been in many and many 

 a sweat-box that was called an extracting- 

 bouse or a work-shop, before I built this 

 one, I decided then and there that I would 

 never tolerate such a thing on my place 

 or in my work. I know that more can 

 be accomplished when the operators can 

 be comfortable when doing their work 

 than if they are required to kill them- 

 selves in some ill-suited, make-shift-of-a- 

 shack so often used by many bee-keepers. 



Then, the matter of having the work- 

 shop and the honey-house combined under 

 one and the same roof, was considered as 

 against the one being separated from the 

 other. But since it becomes necessary so 



Convention <*) Proceedings 



The Ohio State Convention 



The second annual convention of the 

 Ohio State Bee-Keepers' Association 

 met in Cincinnati Feb. Iti, 1911, and 

 elected the following officers for the 

 ensuing year: 



President. D. H. Morris, of Springfield: 

 vice-president. Krank Hammerle. of Hamil- 

 ton; secretary. A. N. Noble, of Springfield: 

 treasurer. Chas. H. Weber, of Cincinnati. 



Executive Committee— G. G. Lingo. Wm. 

 Schmees and C. A. Brooks, of Cincinnati; J. 

 G. Creiehton. of Harrison: and Fred W. 

 Hammerle. of Hamilton. 



Owing to the desire of the majority 

 of the visiting bee-keepers, the meeting 



Fig. 4.— Cross-Section— Showing the Four Floors of Scholl's Honev-House. 



often that certain work must be done that 

 would cause a great deal of running from 

 one to the other, I have decided upon the 

 plan here shown. Although the two are 

 under one and the same roof, they are not 

 together, as it were, but separate. I do 

 not like to have the two united in one 



was limited to the first day. This ne- 

 cessitated the curtailing of the pro- 

 gram, and omitting " Visits to Points 

 of Interest," which had been set for the 

 second day. 



The members engaged in some very 



spirited discussions, owing to the fact 

 that this convention was the first State 

 meeting held since 1888. in Toledo, O. 



Papers were read by the following : 

 Mr. C. H. Weber, on " Shipping Comb 

 Honey to Market;" Mr. Chalon Fowls, 

 " How to Increase the Demand for 

 Honey by Building Up Trade at the 

 Groceries;" and Mr. E. R. Root, on 

 "Modern Methods of Extracting 

 Honey," and " American Foul Brood 

 Differentiated from European Foul 

 Brood," which were very interesting 

 and instructive. 



Mr. I. G. Creighton read a paper on 

 " Foul Brood In and Around Cincin- 

 nati," giving an insight to the disease 

 of 20 years ago, and up to the present. 



At the evening session Prof. N. E. 

 Shaw, Chief Foul Brood Inspector of 

 Ohio, held his audience spell-bound by 

 a chart prepared by himself, indicating 

 the "Alarming Situation of Foul Brood 

 in Ohio," which practically showed 

 that one-third of the State is infected 

 with the disease. However, he prom- 

 ised that if sufficient funds should be 

 forthcoming by an appropriation from 

 the State Legislature for this work, to 

 be able to change the map consider- 

 ably. Bee-keepers from the entire 

 State should assist him by urging their 

 State senators and representatives to 

 vote for the necessary funds required 

 for his valuable work the coming year. 



Mr. E. R. Root's stereopticon lecture 

 on "The Value of Bees in Fertilizing 

 Fruit-Blossoms," was very instructive 

 to both bee-keepers and horticulturists. 

 He showed how these two industries 

 are co-partners in fact. One could not 

 exist without the other. 



During the day session the co-opera- 

 tion of bee-keepers with farmers, to 

 preserve sweet clover and promulgate 

 its culture for the benefit of both, 

 aroused great interest. 



Red clover queens and how to get 

 the most wax out of a given quantity 

 of cappings were explained in detail. 



Taken as a whole, the convention 

 was a success. The next convention 

 will be held in Springfield, Ohio, Thurs- 

 day and Friday, Feb. 15 and Ki, 1912. 

 Henry Reddert Sec. 



