GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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window should be made of one sheet of 

 glass in a frame of good thickness (this to 

 allow ample room for bees to cluster inside 

 the frame against the pane), and hung 

 from one side like a casement window; but 

 instead of using hinges a flat piece of iron 

 of the same width as the thickness of the 

 frame is screwed on, this iron projecting an 

 inch or two above and below the frame, and 

 rounded. The projecting portions slide in 

 grooves cut in a length of wood nailed 

 above and below the opening. Fig. 1 shows 

 the window in position. The bees collect 

 inside. All that is necessary to turn them 



out is to slide the window along to the posi- 

 tion BC, so that the back part moves from 

 A to B, and swing the window around on 

 the point now at B — see No. 2. A similar 

 frame should be made for the wire cloth for 

 use in warm weather. Always slide the 

 window along before swinging around, then 

 there will be no danger of crushing bees 

 before the window is in its new position. 

 When ventilation is needed, slide the win- 

 dow along to position EA, and wire-cloth 

 frame to position AB, and manipulate as 

 before. 



Hoo, Minster, Ramsgate, Eng. 



A SIDE -HILL HONEY -HOUSE 

 Three and One-half Feet Difference in Floor Levels of the Two Rooms 



BY E. S. MILES 



Our honey-house is located on ground 

 sloping considerably, about 3^/2 ft. dro]3 in 

 16 ft. The main room, wliich opens to the 

 southwest, as shown in the first view, is 16 

 X 48 ft., with sides 9 ft. high. The addition, 

 or ell, is 12 X 18 ft., with 12-ft. sides. The 

 roof of the whole building is level; but the 

 floor of the ell is 3 ft. 6 inches lower than 

 the floor of the main room. The trees shown 

 at the left are well back toward the other 

 end of the building, and some of them are 

 100 feet or moi'e fi'om the far end, so that 

 Ave have a place for our home apiary well 

 away, and partially behind the building 

 from the platform where we load and un- 

 load, as shown. Thei-e is a door also in the 

 back for use in working with the home bees. 



The third picture shows a part of the 

 main room facing the door. The door is 

 closed, and does not show in this picture, 

 but is directly on the other side of the 

 work-table, with the full-depth super upon 

 it. Tliis cut shows about one-half the width 



of the main room. The part to the right, 

 not shown, is piled full of supers. At ex- 

 tracting time the space occupied by the 

 piles of bottom-boards, and the 10-lb. pails, 

 is used to store the filled extract ing-sapers 

 as brought in wliile extracting. 



There is also a window in the main room, 

 Avhich does not sliow in the picture, between 

 the extractor and the piles of bottom-boards, 

 Avhich, when uncovered, gives ample light 

 for uncapping. It is covered in the picture, 

 as it let in too much light to show some of 

 the other articles properly. The honey-tank, 

 Avhich is 36 inches high, holds 4800 lbs. 



A rope may be seen behind the tank in 

 the third picture, which is attached to the 

 wall at one end, and runs down thru a 

 pulley attached to the platform on which 

 the tank rests, and up and around a wind- 

 lass attached to the wall, so that, when the 

 honey gets low in the tank, it can be tilted 

 up toward the front so as to expedite the 

 emptying. 



