400 The College Bee House. 
100 colonies of bees, this building need not be more than 
twenty by twenty-four feet. A chimney should pass from 
the attic at the common angle of these three rooms through 
the roof. Wide doors on the south, if the apiary is large, 
should permit the car to enter either of the rooms on an 
extemporized track, whenever extracting or taking off 
comb honey is in operation. 
The house should be so constructed as to be always free 
from rats and mice. In summer, wire gauze doors should 
be used, also wire gauze window screens made ‘to swing 
out like common window blinds. Ours are single, not 
double, light, and so hung that when opened they remain 
so till shut. At the top the gauze extends outside the 
upper piece of the frame, and is separated from it by a bee- 
space width. At the top a few three-eighths inch round 
holes are made. This permits all bees to leave the house, 
while the character of the opening precludes outside bees 
from entering. Inside doors should permit our passing 
directly from any of these rooms to the others. The posi- 
tion of the chimney makes it easy to have a fire in any of 
the rooms. This would be desirable in the shop, in win- 
ter, when hive making, etc., is in operation, or when visit- 
ing with other bee-keepers is in progress. The ripening 
of honey or late extracting makes it often desirable to have 
a fire in the extracting room. If comb-honey is kept in 
the designated room late in the season, it is desirable to 
warm that room. Of course a large stove in the shop 
might be made to heat any or all of the rooms. I would 
have the comb-honey room very tight, and ventilated by 
an easily regulated slide into the chimney for the purpose 
of easy fumigation. Platforms a little out from the wall 
on which the honey may rest for a time are desirable, as 
the honey will not be so fine if immediately crated for 
market. ; 
The extractor room should have close, moth proof cup- 
boards for receiving brood combs. Those in our house 
are high enough for three rows of frames, and wide enough 
to just receive the top-bar of a frame crosswise. Cleats 
nailed on to the inside hold the frames, which are turned 
diagonally a little to pass them to the lower tier. This 
