January, 1918 



GLEANINGS' IN BEE CULTURE 



26 



FROM THE FIELD OF EXPERIENCE 



The 400-colony .apiary of E. 

 above the ground. 



J. Stahlman, Knox, N. Y. At this apiary Mr. Stahlman has a bee-cellar 



The Bee-house and Apiaries of E. J. 

 and P. W. Stahlman 



During- my -sisit at W. D. Wright 's, of Al- 

 tamont, N. Y., he was kind enough to take 

 me to the apiary of E. J. Stahlman. The 

 apiary of 400 colonies is situated near Knox, 

 on a splendid state road some distance from 

 Altamont. When we reached there we found 

 Ml-.. Stahlman and his brother building an 

 above-ground bee-house with a sub-earth 

 ventilator. 



The floor of the house is of concrete, and 



of vitrified tile with a double ai-r-space in 

 them. These air-spaces are intended to pre- 

 vent outside temperatures from influencing 

 the temperature in the house — in other 

 words, to insulate. In general I do not have 

 a very good opinion of an above-ground bee- 

 house, intended as a wintering-place for 

 bees; for the often rapid variations of at- 

 mospheric conditions have such an influence 

 upon the temperature of the room, while 

 with cellars the temperature of the soil 

 about the cellar walls changes but slowly. 

 Still, what almost reconciled me to this cel- 



The Stahlman queen-rearing yard of 50 nuclei. 



