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GLEANINGS IN HHE CrLTURK. 



MORTON'S rORTAIU.K HOl'SK-APIARV. 



While I was stuppiii}^ at Mr. Morton's home 

 I made a free use of the camera — takiiij.; 

 shots at several of his ingenious "fixin's." 

 On the (lay that I was at Ciroton there was to 

 be another bee-keepers' picnic at Freeville, 

 concerning which I will have something fur- 

 ther to say at an(.)ther time. It was arranged 

 that ]Mr. Niver was to take the train, and Mr. 

 Morton and I were to drive over to Freeville, 

 stopping on the way to inspect one of his 

 house-apiaries. Arriving at one of them I 

 took a couple of views which speak for them- 

 selves. The building is made up of large pan- 

 els, said panels being made at home, and so 

 constructed that they can be put together and 



windows with bee-escapes at the top as shown. 

 Between the windows there is a doorway. 



A uni(|Uf feature of the construction is that 

 there is a jog in the siding, as will be seen. 

 The first tier of hives rests on the floor — see 

 interior view. The second tier of hives rests 

 on the jog or shelf, said shelf being exactly 

 balanced, as it were, over the first section of 

 the siding below. The object of this jog is to 

 give the operator inside of the building plenty 

 of room to work over the lower tier of colo- 

 nies, without danger of bumping his head 

 against the upper tier; then, while working 

 over these latter, the operator .stands upon 

 the lower tier of hives. The jog will show 

 both on the inside and outside. The arrange- 



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.MORTON'S PORTAin.)-: IK jL'SK-.\PIARY. 



form a very neat ami commodious house- 

 apiary. By looking sharply at the half-tones 

 you will see the dividing lines in the roof and 

 in the floor. Any point that may be settled 

 upon as l)eing a good honey range may be se- 

 lected as the site for the building; then if fur 

 any reason that locality in years to come does 

 not prove to be as good a one as at first, the 

 structure can be taken down panel by panel, 

 piled on a wagon, and taken to some other 

 point and erected. 



The building is very cheaply constructed, 

 single-walled, and made entirely of tongued 

 and grooved boards. Close to each edge of the 

 roof-boards is a groove, or gain, that conveys 

 the water away from the cracks, thus making 

 a roof at a very small expense, practically 

 water-tight. At each end there are two large 



ment seems to work very nicely, and adds but 

 a tnP.e to the whole cost of the building. 



PAKAFFIXE PAPER FOR SECTIONS DEFENDED. 



BY F. DANZENBAKER. 



Mr. A'aol : — I notice the article of Mr. F. 

 L. Thompson, page 734, from the A. B. J., 

 page 677, relating to paraffine paper for cover- 

 ing sections, etc., in which the writer shows 

 to his satisfaction that he has not succeeded 

 with it as well as he ought to or might have 

 done, and decides he can get along without it. 

 So far, well enough. Experience proves that 

 bees daub and plaster propolis over enameled 

 sheets, duck, burlap, etc., and cut through 



