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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Mak. 1 



In Fig. 1 I 

 present a view 

 of this apiary. 

 It is not neces- 

 sary to point 

 out its ill-kept 

 appearance; 

 still I doubt if 

 a more artistic- 

 looking apiary 

 was ever figur- 

 ed in Glean- 

 ings. Most of 

 the hives are 

 home-made, of 

 rough Califor- 

 nia redwood, 

 and innocent of 

 paint or other 

 ornamentation. 



While vines 

 are splendid for 

 adding orna- 

 ment to an api- 

 ary, there are 

 times when 

 vines, shrub- 

 bery, and build- 

 ings will be im- 

 proved from a 

 landscape view- 

 point by the ad- 

 dition of a cou- 

 ple of hives, as 

 in Fig. 2. The 

 hives shown are 



not the usual store or ready-made ones, but 

 home-made, and were built for an apiary 

 run for extracted honey. 



The next three half-tones show the gradu- 

 al adornment of the buildings in the back- 



FIG. 2. 



FJQ. 3, — IMPROVING THE APPEARANCE 



-BEE-HIVES NEVER DETRACT FROM THE APPEARANCE OF 

 SURROUNDING PREMISES. 



ground of a certain apiary I am acquainted 

 with. For many years a rather make-shift 

 extracting "room" was used by the owner 

 of this bee-yard. It was not one of those 

 large apiaries as we are wont to find them 

 in many parts of Cal- 

 ifornia, especially in the 

 southern portion of the 

 State, but was or is what 

 might be called a farm- 

 apiary, as the place 

 where these bees are 

 kept is farm, garden, or- 

 chard, and apiary in 

 one. The construction 

 of this honey-extracting 

 room was very simple. 

 It was about 10X8 feet, 

 and seven or eight feet 

 high. Two uprights of 

 2X3 scantling were used 

 for the corners. For a 

 foot or so near the 

 ground it was boarded 

 around, that the cloth 

 wall might not come in 

 contact with the earth 

 or receive the splash- 

 in gs of the rain when 

 it would strike the soil. 

 Common muslin was 

 tacked on the three 

 sides, except that in one 

 rj'end was a screen-door 

 [li which was kept closed 



OF AN Al'IAKV. 



