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GLEANmGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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way with the other on the left ; and one or 

 the otlier of them is almost always protected 

 from the cold winds. You have probably often 

 noticed tlie way in which fowls congregate 

 around the corner of a building, so as to 

 avoid the wind. Well, the open sheds are 

 made to answer another purpose still. In 

 sultry weather the poultry seem to be hap- 

 pier when roosting out in the open air, or up 

 in a tree, than anywhere else. Now, their 

 roost is a strip of pine, finches wide by 1 

 inch thick, and running straight through the 

 three buildings ; that is, this perch runs 

 llirough the back part of each shed, and 

 through the back part of the body of the build- 

 ing also. Tlie tlu-ee buildings are made of two 

 thicknesses of inch pine, with building-pa- 

 per between them ; and where this perch or 

 roost passes through the walls of the main 

 bnikling, close-fitting doors, large enough 



tell you they always choose the shed when 

 the weather is suitable, moving over to the 

 warmer apartment only when the nights are 

 chilly. Well, now, in this main apartment, 

 p]-otected by glass, we have a partition run- 

 ning lengthwise right under the ridge-pole. 

 The figure below gives you a view of this 

 partition. 



INTESIOR CENTRAL PORTION OF POl'LTR V-HOI'gE. 





OrU POULTltY - HOUSE AS IT APPEARS ON OUR ( 



for even the largest Brahma rooster, are 

 made right ov^er the perches. In winter the 

 fowls all roost in the warmest apartment of 

 the main building; but as soon as the weath- 

 er will permit, these little doors over the 

 perches are swung open, and the fowls crov/d 

 out into the sheds. I wanted to see what 

 they would do if given their choice in regard 

 to a roosting-place. Well, I am gratified to 



HOUNDS AT THE "HOME OF THE HONEY-BEES." 



You will observe that this partition does 

 not extend clear up to the roof. It goes up 

 about 6 feet high, and then is covered over 

 by means of hinged doors like lids of a 

 chest. In the cut above, one of these doors 

 is shown, swung open and hooked up to one 

 of the roofs. This is for ventilation. Dur- 

 ing zero weather these doors close down 

 tight. The door, also, in the center of the 



