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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



House Apiaries. 



In response to a request, we give the fol- 

 lowing description of a modern house api- 

 ary building, in this issue of the Journal. 

 For the illustrations our thanks are due to 

 friend A. 1. Koot, who remarked that they 



the engraving of the house apiary and dia- 

 gram of the ground plan given hei'ewith, it 

 will be seen that only three hives are on a 

 side. The bees from the fentral one will of 

 course recognize their own entrance, and 

 those at each side, being the end of the row, 

 will also find theirs without trouble. To 

 make the entrance to each hive still more 

 conspicuous we take advantage of the bat- 



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give a good idea of his own house apiary, 

 with the exception of some of the ornamen- 

 tation. His description is as follows: 



My house apiaries are constructed of a 

 square or oblong shape, but our objections 

 to such, would be the difliculty of getting 

 the bees out of the corners of the room (this 

 might be obviated by having a square house 

 ■with the doors at two opposite corners) and 

 the increased danger of having both bees 

 and queen get into the wrong hives. From 



tens on the building, as will be seen from 

 the diagram. The building is made of pine 

 or other boards 1 foot in width, and these 

 boards which are put on up and down, con- 

 stitute the entire frame of the building. Six 

 of til em put as close together as they will 

 come conveniently, form one of the eight 

 sides, and the cracks are covered with a 

 beveled batten, one edge of the corner 

 boards being beveled slightly, that the bat- 

 ten may close the corner crack also. ^ 



