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building, I could not be induced to again adopt outdoor apiaries. 

 Figure 22 shows a section or corner of a room containing hives ; 2 is 

 a bottom board from which a hive has been removed. The hives sit 

 two inches from the wall, and the bottom is arranged after the fashion 

 of the chaff hive, and may be packed away in chaff during winter as 

 a still better protection. 3, shows sheets of legal-cap paper tacked to 

 the wall, for the purpose of keeping a register of each colony. This 

 is very important, and is a great help in the manipulation of colonies, 

 to know exactly their condition by simply glancing at the register. 

 This will frequently save a half hour's work spent in opening and ex- 

 amining them, and often furnish information that could not be found 

 by an examination, such as time of swarming, number of pounds 

 honey taken, age of queen, when young queens will hatch, quality of 

 queen, tested or untested queen, queen purchased of whom, imported 

 queen, selected breeders, etc., etc. 4, shows nucleus hives containing 

 one or two combs, and some bees for rearing queens, nailed up against 

 the wall, and a small hole put through the siding for the bees to pass 

 out and. in. These I have previously explained under queen rearing. 

 They may be used as well outdoors, in ordinary hives ; and when one 

 or two frames are thus used in a hive, an adjusting board to adjust 

 the required space in the hive can be used. 



I will name some of the advantages as I see them in keeping bees 



FIG. 22. House apiaries. 



