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A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



Devoted to t^e Interests of Hoqey Producers, 



$1,00 A YEAR, 



HUTCHlHSOri, EditoP & Pfop. 



The special topic of this issue is 



" Buildiqgs for the Apiary," 



That of the next issue mill be 



" Separators." 

 COn^ESPOrlDErlGE. 



Cost of a Good Shop.-Buildings Usually 



Too Small.— A Symposium for 



Uorresponaents, 



DR. C. C. MILLER. 



ff VE spent more time looking at the 

 ^' picture on the cover than in studying 

 your leader. It's a gem. I mean the 

 1 he picture. The other isn't as good as usual. 

 It can't always be best. 



My shop was built some seven years ago, 

 18x'>4 two stories and cellar, cost ^391. /O. 

 I don't know that it is as good as it should 

 be, but I don't know that I could better it if 

 I had it to do over again. 



My honey room is a separate affair, being 

 an addition built to the dwelling. It's bad, 

 so In the course of the summer it's sure to 

 be filled up with things that don't belong 

 there, and if you have as good a wife as I 

 have, you'll not like to say anything. Still, 

 it's a pity not to have it used for something 

 when there is no honey in it, and it is very 

 handy to go into it without going out doors. 



Wherever a honey room is, the one special 

 thine, is a floor so well supported that a train 

 of Tars can run over it. I don't think I 

 should like a honey room in a shop, it 

 should be on the ground floor, for it would 

 be a big job to carry all the honey up and 

 down stairs, and it should be near the roof, 

 so that it can have the full benefit of the heat 

 of the sun. So it is perhaps best to have it a 

 one story building, and 1 never would think 

 of having a shop only one story high, for the 

 second story costs comparatively little, and 

 is always needed to store m. 



I don't know about your idea that a honey 

 room should be warm, with non-conductmg 

 walls It is true it would be nice to have a 

 place where you can keep honey through the 

 winter, still, your honey will generally be 

 out of the way before late winter, and after 

 it is taken from the hives it should be m a 

 place as hot as the sun or thin walls can 

 make it. 



Estimate how much room you 's^iH need 

 and then add fifty per cent, to it. You 11 

 need it all. 



Decidedly, put the building at one side of 

 the apiary. If you do much, you'll want to 

 drive up to it with a team. 



My shop runs the longest way north and 

 south. On the north end, ten feet is cut off 

 for a work room. This has four good sized 

 windows,-a good bit of light for a room 

 10x18, but it's none too light. One window 

 does for the other room, and one for the 

 whole of the up stairs which is all in one 

 room. A door opens from the outside into 



