OCTOBKR, 1919 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



afraid that tliey would l)o moddled with. I 

 leased a small plot upon a hillside rising 

 sharply on the northwest and west, protect- 

 ed by trees on the west and south, and open 

 only on the east, with a small brook running 

 •along one side, which furnishes water the 

 greater part of the year. 



Construction of Apiary House. 

 Here I erected my building, 8 feet wide, 

 24 long, 11 feet in front, and 8 high in back. 

 It was built of No. 2 spruce lumber, boards 

 planed on two sides and matched, the 2 by 

 4 's planed on four sides. This gives a 

 smooth surface inside and outside. The out- 

 side is well painted, all in white, except 

 that the front is painted in sections in red, 

 white, and blue — to help the bees in mark- 

 ing their locations. The roof is covered 

 with two-ply rubberoid roofing-paper kept 

 painted with roofing-paint. The studs are 



bevel is 1% inches. On this is placed the 

 iloor for the hives, having an opening, 

 boards beveled to match, which opening is 

 8 inches in from the inside of the wall 

 boarding. 



The entrance thru the wall boarding is % 

 by 15 inches. The passageway from the 

 outer to the inner entrance is about 9 inches 

 in length, and the inner end is 2 inches 

 higher than the outer. The hives are placed 

 on this Iloor within 4 inches of the wall, and 

 are thus 4 inches apart. The frames are 

 parallel with the wall and entrance for ease 

 in handling. The entrances are wide open 

 during hot weather, and at other periods are 

 closed by means of an entrance-guard which 

 is a board 2 inches wide and 18 long, hav- 

 ing a % by 8-inch opening on one edge and 

 <i % by 2-inch opening on the other edge. 

 The guard is placed over the outer entrance 



Apidrj hou.se of H William S( ott 'J he fi-ont is painted in sections m )-ed, wliite, and blue, to help the bees 

 in marking their location. The^e colors produce a strange effect in the picture, misleading one to believe 

 the building rather pretentious with eiglit doors on the front, where, as a matter of fact, there is only a 



plain wall with no doors in front. 



by being slid down back of two finishing 

 nails driven part way into the alighting- 

 board. This alighting-board is about 15 

 inches wide, and runs the whole length of 

 the building, sloping from the entrance 

 about 3 inches in the 15. Very little wind 

 enters this entrance, and storms never. I 

 found it necessary to nail the entrance- 

 guards on the lower alighting-board to pre- 

 vent skunks from pulling them off. 



The windows are a single pane of 12 by 16 

 glass, sliding up or down on the wall, and 



set on the floor, two feet on centers. The 

 shelf is 4 feet up from the floor, and should 

 be built 20 inches wide, with an extension- 

 back for winter to hold the packing. On 

 the floor along the side wall pieces of % 

 board 3 by 20 are placed on each side of 

 each stud. On the floor I put a. strip of 

 one-ply rubberoid roofing 20 inches wide. 

 At the back a piece of board is laid so as to 

 make the width of the platform 2 feet; then 

 between the two short pieces, laid from front 

 to back, is put a board beveled so that the 



