THE BEE-HOUSE. 53 



On the inside of the bee-house, the boxes in 

 the upper row stand about table height, those in 

 the lower row, about six inches above the floor. 

 On the outside, the entrances to the upper row 

 are about five feet, the entrances to the lower row 

 about three feet from the ground. The entrances 

 through the wall may be cut in stone, bricks or 

 wood, and should be chamfered away on the out- 

 side, leaving the wall at those parts as thin as 

 practicable, and letting the opening correspond in 

 size with the outlets that are sunk in the floor 

 boards to be hereafter described. The potatoe- 

 cellar is built with bricks, the bee-house of timber, 

 lathed and plastered within, and thatched on the 

 outside. 



Where the bees enter the boxes, two wooden 

 shelves or resting boards are fixed, two or three 

 inches thick, to prevent warping ; they extend the 

 whole length of the building, are about a foot 

 wide, and rest on cross pieces, nailed fast to the 

 uprights with which the bee-house is built : these 

 cross pieces extend also about fifteen inches into 

 the bee-house, where they serve as supporters for 

 the shelves on which the bee-boxes are placed. 

 The resting boards on the outside are divided, by 

 bricks on the edge, into several compartments, as 

 shown in the frontispiece; the bricks extend 

 the full width of the resting board, and all the 

 compartments are slated over. By this means the 



