LOCATIONS AND BXJILDINGS 17 



covering it with tongue and groove (seven-eighths of an 

 inch thick) pine boards. The studs of the building, 3 

 inches by 1 inch hardwood, will provide — together with 

 the top and bottom plates — a solid frame on which to 

 nail. The boards should be put on perpendicularly, and 

 the requisite spaces must be left for the windows. 

 The roof is also covered with pine boards running 

 from the ridge to the eaves. The whole structure 

 is then covered with building felt or "Ruberoid." This 

 makes a honey-house bee and rain proof. 15 feet by 12 

 feet over all would make a suitable building. 



Along the top of the west wall 4 pieces of wood should 

 be nailed for a handy frame rack. At the south end of 

 the building stands the tinning bench, with shelves over- 

 head for tins, jars, etc. The small projection on the 

 northern end — intake— is a small shelf with sliding trap 

 door. The same apparatus is repeated on the west side, 

 the two traps are connected by runners planed smooth 

 for supers to slide along. In working, the full supers 

 are pushed in at the intake along the runners until the 

 slides are full. 



If one man is taking off and extracting, he now 

 proceeds inside and extracts. The empty supers are 

 removed at the outlet. If two men are working, one 

 operates the machine while the outside man brings the 

 full combs along. This gives the robber bees no chance 

 to gain admittance to the honey-house. This plan of two 

 trap doors, one to receive full and the other to remove 

 empty supers, is an extension of the method used by the 

 American bee-keeper, Alexander, in his extracting-house. 

 The apiary consisted of over 700 colonies, and the honey- 

 house was smaller than the size here recommended, yet 

 the honey crop of many tons was successfully extracted 

 by a system similar to the one here explained. 



Unfortunately the structure here illustrated is best 

 suited for a situation quite free from fire risk; use 

 galvanised iron wherever possible. The diagrams are. self 

 explanatory. This system of handling honey is splendid 

 when the whole super is removed at once. 



