THE AMEIUCAJS BEK JOURNAL. 



439 



plain and defend my views, or, if 

 necessary, acknowledge my errors." 



Try again, Mr. Cornell, and use a 

 queen-excluding honey-board, and do 

 not contract the brood-nest quite so 

 much. 



Rogersville,($ Mich. 



Gleainnfis. 



A Honse for tlie Apiary, 



PROF. A. J. COOK. 



sure that, with enough good food, 

 bees are entirely safe in such a cellar. 

 By the aid of the cistern there is no 

 occasion to use ice to reduce the tem- 

 perature in the spring ; and we can, 

 by the aid of the sub-earth ventila- 

 tion and cistern water, keep the tem- 

 perature just to our liking all through 



I have been giving much thought of 

 late to the plan for an ideal house for 



the apiary It seems to uie that this 



is a question of exceeding importance. 

 and 1 wish to submit my drawings 

 and reasons for this plan for criti- 

 cisms, that we may secure the very 

 best. 



The house is three stories— a cellar 

 7 ft. high ; first floor 8 ft., and cham- 

 ber 6 ft. at the lowest part. The cellar 

 is for wintering bees ; the rooms 

 above are for honey, extracting, and 

 shop; the chamber is for storage. Tlie 

 cellar has two rooms. One, for bees 

 in winter, is 18x24 ft. This is en- 

 tirely under ground, with a good stone 

 wall, grouted below and plastered 

 above, with a double floor grouted be- 

 tween—to secure against mice and 

 cold alike, and with the partition wall 

 double, with double doors. At the 

 centre of the partition \\a,\\ a small 

 chimney runs from the bottom of the 

 cellar up to and through the roof. 

 Just within the wall of this room is a 

 small gutter which extends nearly 

 around the room, as seen in the draw- 

 ing, from one end of a cistern to the 

 underground sub-earth ventilation- 

 pipe which runs 200 ft. or more under 

 ground. Thus this pipe of 4-inch 

 glazed tile serves for sub earth venti- 

 lation, overflow-pipe for a cellar cis- 

 tern, and it can be made to empty the 

 cistern and cool the bee-cellar at any 

 time, the water passing through the 

 small gutter. 



In the other room of the cellar, 

 which is 8x24 ft, there is a cistern 

 8x14 ft., and 5 ft. high. As will be 

 seen, this extends 2 ft. into the bee- 

 cellar, yet the partition is tight, ex- 

 cept a small hole just at the bottom, 

 so we may say we have two cisterns- 

 one a small one in the bee-cellar, the 

 other a large one in the other cellar, 

 though they are connected at the 

 bottom. The other room, which is a 

 sort of vestibule for the bee-cellar, 

 has two windows— one (1x2) by 2 ft., 

 and stairs to the room above, which 

 are covered by double trapdoors. 

 This room is entirely under ground, 

 though the outer double door, which 

 is 4 ft. wide, is, because of a natural 

 slope of the ground, on a level with 

 the outside, or else is inclined so we 

 can easily run a wheelbarrow into the 

 cellar. The windows may receive 

 light by a half-circular excavation, or, 

 if desired, may be above the earth at 

 this southeast corner of the house. 



Here, then, we have an arrange- 

 ment by which we can control the 

 temperature perfectly, from October 

 to May ; and from an experience ex- 

 tending DOW over eight years, I am 



the winter, with almost no trouble 

 and at no expense. This is no theory ; 

 it is a demonstrated fact. As the bees 

 can be wheeled into the cellar, their 

 removal to or from the cellar is a very 

 light task. 



On the ground floor, which is on a 

 level with the earth outside, there 



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FIGURE I. 



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OF 



BEE CELLAR. -^ 



18x24 feet. 

 A A 



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Ihi'crrnccs to Figure I. 



A.— Cellar for bees in winter; 7 feet hish. 



grouted on the bottom and plastered 



with water-lime or ceiled above ; size, 



18.\24 feet. 

 B.— Cistern, 8x14 feet, outside measure, and 



5 feet high. 

 €.— Stairs to cellar. 

 !>.— Four- foot, double door. 

 E.— Chimney. 



F.— Cistern extends to this line. 

 G.— Cellar windows, IxS'A ft., double, outer 



glass, and inner wood. Both are hinged 



above so as to open in easily. 



H.— Passage-way from cellar, with stone 

 abutments on each side, and level with 

 outside so that a wheelbarrow can be 

 run in and out. 



O Gutter. 



J.— Stone wall .5 ft. high, or all the way up, 

 as may be desired. 



K.— Drain of 0-inch tile (Dr. Miller says 10- 

 Inch) following the inner lines 200 ft., 

 and all the way below frost or variable- 

 temperattii'c mark. 



li.— Double wall lined with paper. 



FIGURE II. 



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Rcjcrcnccs to Figure II. 



M.-Shop, 12x:50 feet. 



N.— Extracting room, 12x15 feet, with hard- 

 wood tloor. 



O.— windows, all of which have wire gauze 

 screens outside, and hinged to swing out. 

 Screens on -1 south windows to extend 4 

 Inches above upper Jamb, with !4-inch 

 space. 



P.— Pump. 



R.— Room, ISxl'i ft., lathed and plastered, 

 with stove. 



S.— Cellar trapdoor— double. 



T.— Chimney. 



v.— Three and one-half feet ftairs. 



Doors— The double one at the bottom having- 

 a sill so low that a wheelbarrow can be 

 run over it; outside door being of gauze- 

 wire. 



Posts l-t ft.; studding, to chamber, alternate 

 12 and 18 inches apart. Side studding 12 

 feet long and 1 ft. apart. Floor, double, 

 one foot apart, and with grouting. Cel- 

 lar and house to be mouse-proof. Cell- 

 ing 8 ft.; doora are all 3 feet. 



