THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



the sectious in the center of the hive, where 

 work was performed more expeditiously and 

 better results secured.— Ed. 1 



A Good Building Saves One-Half tl e Labor. 

 — How One was Built. 



E. p. GIBBS. 



?^^0\V to build a building for use at an 

 apiary, is a subject that has given 

 me no small amount of thought ; 

 and, because 1 did not feel able to build such 

 a one as I thought I woald like, I did not 

 build any for a long time after I saw the 

 need of one, but used a part of a barn for a 

 shop and stored and scraped houey in tl.e 

 dwelling, but it was very incon\ enieut and 

 caused a large amount of extra labor. I got 

 along in this way until the fall of 1889, when 

 I concluded if I could not build oue as I 

 wanted it I would build something ; and, as 

 I have been largely benefited in the past by 

 the experience of others given in the bee 

 journals, I will give you my ideas in regard 

 to a house for the apiary. 



My apiary is situated about fifteen rods 

 back from the road, and back of my otlier 

 buildings, and tlie honey house is situated in 

 oue corner of the apiary. This location I 

 think preferable for several reasons. First, 

 I can take in at one view the whole apiary ; 

 next, I can drive to the building at any time 

 with a te;im for the purpose of unloading 

 supplies or taking them away or loading 

 honey from the house for the purpose of 

 marketing it. 



The building is 12x24 with 14-foot posts. 

 The roof is given a pitch between }{ and 3^, 

 and the collar beams are run up on the 

 rafters so that we have nine feet in the clear 

 in the center of the room up stairs, and this 

 we use as store room for hives, supplies, or 

 anything we wish to put up there. The 

 space below is eight feet in the clear and 

 divided into two rooms ; the larger one is 

 12x14, used for a shop. The smaller is used 

 for a store room for honey or for putting 

 together sectious, and is 10x12 less the stair- 

 way, which is three feet, and we get what 

 room there is under the stairs to store things 

 in. The larger room has three windows and 

 one door and the smaller room two windows 

 and one door. Up st;iirs we have one win- 

 dow in each end and two frieze windows on 

 the south side. All windows and doors are 

 provided with screens and bee escapes. 



The frame of the building is what is called 

 balloon, studded up and down with 2x4 

 studding. Sheeting is put upon these and 

 I)aper on the sheeting, and the whole is 

 covered with drop siding, which makes it 

 almost frost proof. It is lathed and plastered 

 two coats on inside, and painted two coats 

 of lead paint on outside. The chimney 

 comes down into the lower rooms at the par- 

 tition, and there is a flue for stovepipe in 

 each room, also one up stairs. There is no 

 cellar, but the building is underpinned with 

 stone. 



Now this does first rate, and it seems as 

 though it lessened our work for the apiary 

 one-half. 



But now you say, if you were to build 

 again, how would you change it ? Well, in 

 the first place, if I were certain that I could 

 make a cellar that would not freeze, I would 

 put a cellar under the whole of the building. 

 Next, I would make it fourteen feet wide, 

 and if I had plenty of money, sixteen feet 

 wide, and then I think I would give the roof 

 >2 pitch, and get a little more room under 

 the rafters. It is hardly possible to have too 

 much room to store hives, frames, cases, etc. 



Lyndon, 111., Dec. 23, 1890. 



Buildings for the Apiary.— A Few Odd 

 Points Concerning Them. 



.JAMES HEDDON. 



MNOWING full well that the kind of 

 buildings and the way I should ar- 

 ' range them would likely be different 

 in different climates and different localities, 

 and in the production of different kinds of 

 honey ; that is, comb or extracted, I will 

 leave to others, if they wish, the outlining of 

 details of everything, and only attempt to 

 mention a few points, which are dear to me, 

 having been used by me during about a 

 quarter of a century's experience in honey 

 production. 



In the first place, build all of your build- 

 ings about double the capacity you expect to 

 need. Put your honey house and shop, 

 whether they be two separate buildiigs or 

 both in one, at the side of your apiary, never 

 in the center. Thon you or your help can 

 watch the swarms much easier. The south 

 side of your apiary is best, so that, in over- 

 looking your bees you will have the northern 

 sky for a back-ground. It will also be shady 

 on the apiary side of your building. Make 



