382 A Modern Bee-Farm 
No apiary of any pretensions can be properly con- 
ducted without a suitable house, so that the surplus 
honey may be accommodated ; extracting carried out 
under cover ; and queen-rearing operations be free 
from exposure. 
CHAPTER XXIV. 
HOUSE APIARIES, STORE ROOMS, &c. 
T would be a difficult matter to give hard and fast 
} rules for putting up buildings to suit every bee- 
keeper who owns a large number of colonies. One 
may have premises that with little or no alteration suit his 
requirements. Another may have no room to put up 
convenient sheds, or the situation is such that any given 
plan “could not be carried out. 
I will therefore give ground plans of buildings, etc, 
which I have found to be convenient, and the reader 
may then make such modifications as may suit his own 
particular requirements, having the general idea in mind. 
The Building 
as Fig. 79, is put up with 3-in. by 2-in. scantling as the 
framework, and #-in. by 6-in. boards, matched and beaded. 
The roof leans to a 10-ft. wall at the back. The front of 
the main shed is 6ft. from ground to roof; the outer store 
about 4ft. at the front. . 
The Workshop 
is 20ft. by 1zft. with communication to the apiary at D. 
The plan, to a great extent, explains itself; FR are 
frame-racks for hanging up frames as put together, or 
