NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



7'5' 



APIARY, OR BEE-HOUSE. 



GILMORE'S PATENT APIARY. 



The house may be made plain and cheap, or or- 

 namental, as the proprietor desires. It is eight or 

 ten feet wide and of any desired length The cut 

 of the house represents the front open; but it may 

 be closed when necessary. The hives set back 

 about their width from the front. The black spaces j 

 in front show the openings for the bees, correspond- 1 

 ing with the doors in the hives. At the end ofj 

 the house is a door opening to a passage in the rear 

 of the hives, for the purpose of inspection, feeding, 

 applying or removing boxes, &c. 



FRONT VIEVS? OF THE HIVE. 



This cut represents a front view of the hive, 

 which is made in three equal sections, with slats 

 between them, at the upper part of each section, 

 about the width of laths, and one-fourth of an inch 

 apart. The slats sustain the honey in the under 

 section, when the section above is removed. The 

 object of these sections is to allow of the advantage 

 of removing the top section, when the hive is near- 

 ly full, which section in such a case is generally 



well filled with honey, and contains but few bees, 

 and supplying the deficiency by adding an empty 

 section underneath. In this way surplus honey may 

 be obtained, the bees kept constantly at work with- 

 out swarming, and they are supplied with new 

 comb, which is very important, as bees are more 

 healthy and active in new comb, and the young 

 brood is larger and more vigorous, as old combs be- 

 comes partially filled from every new brood. 



These hives are so constructed and arranged that 

 bees may be conducted from a hive at any section 

 on either side, and thus form new colonies without 

 swarming. They may also be conducted from the 

 upper story or tier of hives down through the floor 

 into a hive below. Or if swarms in the usual way 

 are wanted, the bees will swarm by limiting them 

 as to room. 



In the rear of the hives, in the house, boxes are 

 attJiched to the hives, which can be removed con- 

 veniently, and empty ones put in their place. At 

 the same place, arrangements are made for feeding 

 the bees, so that robbers cannot get the honey or 

 food offered them, unless they come through the 

 hive. 



This apiany is so arranged that it seems to af- 

 ford every desirable advantage for keeping and 

 managing bees, and it can be done with the greatest 

 convenience. 



Mr. Gilmore has had many highly favorable tes- 

 timonials from many intelligent persons who have 

 tried his plan of managing bees; and from agricul- 

 tural socities and other associations he has received 

 liberal premiums. He received a premium of the 

 N. Y. S. Agricultural Society, at their show at 

 Albany, and he has received several premiums from 

 the Am. Institute. 



Mr. W. A. Brighara offers rights of this Apiary, 

 for certain sections of country, as may be seen ,n 

 our advertising columns. 



