GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



A floor can be seen at the left, about 

 three feet above tlie tank, on which can be 

 noticed some pasteboard boxes. This floor 

 is in the ell, and makes a loft that opens 

 into the main room, and is up about 4V2 

 feet from the floor of the main room. It 

 makes a convenient storeroom for the al- 

 most innumerable articles connected with a 

 well-equipped bee business that are used 

 only occasionally. 



The end of the main room at our back, as 

 we face the tliird view, is equipped with a 

 full window in the center, and the door 

 before mentioned ; also a half-window on 

 the side near the, door. We have a table in 

 front of the window, where the section hon- 

 ey, mostly from the home yard, is sorted, 

 scraped, and gi-aded. It is tlien set on cov- 

 ers, or escape-boards, and transferred to the 

 floor near the tank and extractor. 



At the right, and back, as we face the 

 last picture, are ste]is ascending to the main 

 floor; and across the side of the ell opposite 

 the tank is the workbench for all carpenter 

 work necessary. At this bench we nail the 

 shipping-cases and case the section honey, 

 while the extracted, wlien filled into the cans 

 or pails, is usually set back on the main 

 floor, to be cased up and loaded from the 

 door. 



Trom the above, it will be seen that we 

 have a honey-house with a door handy for 

 use with the home yard, and also two doors 

 with platforms of suitable heights to load 

 wagons without lifting, on the two ends 

 furthest from the beeyard so that, in going 

 and coming in outyard work, we have little 

 trouble from bees. It is made with four 

 4x6 sills set on substantial posts, resting 

 on concrete blocks, with 2x6 joists 16 inches 

 apart, and yellow or hard pine flooring. 



The sides of the building are of 2x4 

 studding, 24 inches apart, boarded witli 

 sliiplap, then papered and sided with regu- 

 lar 6-inch house .siding. The roof is made 

 of 2 X 4 rafters, 24 inches apart, sheating 

 and shingles. It is bee, fly, and mouse 

 proof. I don't remember the cost ; but I 

 think the m.aterial was about $300, or may 

 be a trifle more. We built it ourselves, and 

 the bees paid us our wages as well as for all 

 the material and all that's in it and the 

 ground it stands on. 



A building this size will handle the crop 

 from 300 colonies without serious crowding. 

 By using a clieap shed for empty supei-s it 

 could be made to handle the crop from 300 

 to 500 colonies. 



Dunlap, Iowa, 



Novel anangement of work-shop as \\sed by H. B. Phillips, Auburn, Me. 



Reals, Lewjstop, Me. 



Photographed by Inez A, 



