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ly develoi^ed in all nature, and confined 

 heretofore in an airtight box, and tortured 

 all day by a nearly tropical sun. 



I believe that, with just a little more 

 knowledge on the subject, comb-honey pro- 

 duction will soon be less handicapped by 



swarming than is even now the case with 

 apiaries run solely for extracted honey, and 

 often wonder if there would be room on this 

 great earth for just one more new and 

 perfect hive. 



Frenchtown, N. J. 



A WELL-LOCATED APIARY, BEE CELLAR, AND HONEY- HOUSE 



BY E. A. DUAX 



[The following article should have appeared in our May 1st issue, but was left out by an oversight. 

 The first picture mentioned is that shown on the cover, May 1. — Ed.] 



wintering the bees. The cellar ceiling has 

 ten-inch joists lined on the under side with 

 paper and matched lumber, then about 6 

 inches of sawdust ; or four-inch dead-air- 

 space tloor of matched lumber, and about 7 

 inches of sawdust on top of it, which makes 

 it frost-iDroof. It has a 10 x 10-inch ventil- 

 ator reaching within ten inches of the bot- 



We have a two-story honey-house, 14 x 28 

 feet, located very near our apiai-y. The rear 

 door leading to the beeyard is at my left in 

 the picture (cover picture May 1). From 

 the beeyard it is down hill, which makes it 

 easy to run in heavy supers filled with hon- 

 ey to be extracted. The second story is used 

 for a store room, where five tons of honey 

 were stored last fall. 

 It has a rubberoid cov- 

 ered roof, Avhich makes 

 it an ideal place to 

 store honey. We raise 

 the honey to the upper 

 story with a home- 

 made elevator run by 

 a gasoline -engine 

 which also runs the 

 extractor. We can ele- 

 vate between 700 and 

 800 lbs. to a load. Bee- 

 yard is sheltered on 

 the north by a cedar 

 hedge. 



The building at the 

 extreme left, of which 

 you can just see the 

 roof, is the one shown 

 at the left in Fig. 1. 

 The roof shown in the 

 rear is the bee-cellar. 

 It is built on a side 



hill facing the south. It is very handy for 

 putting bees in and taking them out, for 

 there are only two steps to come out or go 

 in. Two men with a stretcher can handle 

 75 colonies in about two hours easily. 



This cellar is not used for any thing but 



E. A. Duax and family in front of their home which the bees helped to build. 



tom of the cellar. I have also an intake 

 ventilator 60 ft. long, leading to my bee- 

 cellar, 6 ft. deep inground, which works 

 finely, keeping temperature about 42 de- 

 grees Fahr. 



Chippewa Falls, Wis. 



BY J. J. MOYERS 



I am sending two pictures together with 

 a newspaper clipping which appeared in 

 the Nashville Tennessean and American a 

 few months ago. I thought that perhaps 

 you would like to use these in the news 

 columns of Gleanings. 



My occupation is banking, which duties 

 I perform above all. In place of being an 

 athletic fiend I am a bee fiend, from which 

 I obtain profit as well as pleasure. I have 

 85 colonies, all in ten-frame hives, two and 

 three story, also two apiaries which aie 



