THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 



ience, especially on the windows of the room 

 for honey storage, is tight board bliuds. 

 Ours are made of ^ inch ceiling, and our 

 building can be closed up as dark as a cellar, 

 which cannot be accomplished with Venetian 

 blinds. With tight blinds only one window 

 in the entire building needs to be supplied 

 with a bee escape. 



If the building is used for rendering wax, 

 melting candied honey, and performing sev- 

 eral other operations where much water is 

 required, a cistern is a very handy append- 

 age, saving much travel to and from a dis- 

 tant well or spring. Where the grounds are 

 laid out tastefully and flowers are cultivated, 

 running water is a desideratum. 



And even i-f we did not cultivate flowers 

 in the yard we would cultivate a pretty vine 

 over a door or window. To beautify with 

 flowers of a bright color is restful to the eye. 

 A barrel sawn in two and half of it filled 

 with various colored geraniums in the center 

 of our yard, was an attraction and pleasure 

 to our eyes all summer. 



One more point, what color shall we paint 

 our house ? I have found them painted all 

 colors. Allowing me to express my opinion, 

 a red and white is the most detestable, but 

 an all white, or a light drab with dark trim- 

 mings, looks well with the surrounding hives 

 if they are painted the same color. 



A tasteful apiary and a pretty house adds 

 much to the reputation of the bee keeper, 

 and will attract trade, while the Slovenish 

 and unkempt surroundings will drive it away. 



Rambles. 



Have Only One Building, and at the Side of 



the Apiary. — Have Doors and Windows 



Slide. — Keep Up the Discussion 



of Special Topics. 



OHAS. H. GEEEN. 



[RIEND Hutchinson. — In a brief uotica 

 I will endeavor to describe such a 

 building as I prefer for use for an 

 apiary at the home yard. I would have but 

 one building and that large enough for work 

 shop and store room. One building can be 

 built cheaper than two or three small ones, 

 and is much handier. As to size, one must 

 be governed by the extent of the business, 

 the same as the farmer would be in building 

 a barn to store his crops. It should be two 

 stories high, and, on the lower floor, I would 

 partition off a room as large as is needed for 

 an extracting room and place to store comb 



honey. There should be one window in this 

 room and that should have only one sash 

 and made to slide to one side. The outside 

 of this window should be covered by a wire 

 screen extending above the window six or 

 eight inches and held out bee-space by strips 

 of wood. I would have but one door to this 

 room and that a slide door opening into the 

 other part of the building. 



The balance of the space below may be 

 left in one room, which is for a work shop 

 and supply room. The room above is also 

 used for storing supplies. I would have 

 sliding doors wherever any doors were need- 

 ed, and all windows arranged on the same 

 plan as described above, and the building 

 made bee and mouse proof as far as possible. 



I would locate the building at one side of 

 the apiary, and, if possible, so it would not 

 obstruct the view from the house. 



I would have this building large enough to 

 store all supplies from out apiaries that 

 need to be housed. In locating out apiaries 

 I have been fortunate in having some build- 

 ing or shed near by where I could store a 

 few supjilies and which afforded protection 

 in case of a storm. If a person is producing 

 extracted honey in the out apiaries, a tent, 

 such as is used by E. France, would suit me 

 best, I think. 



Last fall I built a bee cellar cave at one of 

 my apiaries and I expect this to answer all 

 purposes that a building would be used for. 

 For a place to store extracted honey I now 

 prefer a cellar, and I usually take it there 

 the same day it is extracted. The casks are 

 filled as full as it is possible to get them and 

 sealed air tight at once. I have a good cellar 

 under my dwelling which answers my pur- 

 pose very well. 



Now just one word of praise for the Re- 

 view in closing. While its title is perhaps 

 somewhat misleading, the special topic fea- 

 ture is just what suits me ; for, in the busy 

 season, when I have but little time to read, 

 I often find it very convenient to refer to ; 

 for, in one No., I am able to get the views of 

 several of the most successful honey pro- 

 ducers, on a subject which, perhaps, at that 

 time, would be of the greatest importance to 

 me ; while, perhaps, it would be best to de- 

 vote a greater part of the journal to extracts, 

 I think I would still retain a corner where 

 special topics may be discussed each month. 



Waukesha, W'is., .Jan. 1, 1891. 



[The discussion of some special topic will 

 always remain the prominent feature of the 



