398 The College Bee House. 
CHAPTER XIX, 
Tue House APIARY AND BEE House. 
The house apiary is a frost-proof house in which the 
bees are kept the year through. The entrances to the 
hives are through the sides of the house, and all manipula- 
tion of the bees is carried on inside. From what I have 
said about wintering, it at once appears that such a house 
should preserve a uniform temperature. As many such 
houses were built a few years ago, and are now, with very 
few exceptions, used for other purposes, I will only say 
that if such houses are ever desirable it is only when queen 
rearing is to occupy the chief attention of the apiarist. 
BEE HOUSES. 
As a good and convenient bee house is very desirable in 
every apiary of any considerable size, I will proceed to 
give a few hints in reference to its construction. 
First, I should have a good cellar under the house, en- 
tirely under ground so as certainly to be frost proof, mouse 
and rat proof, thoroughly grouted, and ventilated as already 
described. I would have three doors to this from the east, 
the outer one inclined. In our new college apiary we have 
a vestibule to the cellar, and four doors beside the slanting 
one, two to the inner one or bee cellar and two to the outer 
or vestibule. I should have the entrance an inclined plane, 
which, especially if the apiary is large, should be so grad- 
ual in its descent that a car could pass down it into the 
cellar on a temporary track. The cellar should be well 
drained, or if water be permitted to pass through it,'this 
should be kept in prescribed channels. In our cellar we 
have a large cistern, This is mostly in the outer cellar, 
but partly in the inner or bee cellar. A tight partition 
separates the two rooms except at bottom of the cistern. 
In case of large apiaries the track and car make the re- 
moval of the bees to and from the cellar an easy matter. 
The first floor I should have, if my apiary was large, on a 
