and its Economic Management. ig^'. 



CHAPTER XX. 

 HOUSE APIARIES, STORE ROOMS, &c. 



IT 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, &c., that I 

 have found to be convenient, and the reader may then make 

 such modifications as may suit his own particular require- 

 ments, having the general idea in mind. 



The Building 



as Fig. 58 is put up with 3-inch by 2-inch scantling as. the. 

 framework, and f-inch by 6^inch boards, matched and beaded. 

 The roof leans to a stone wall at the back, and is there 10 feet 

 from the ground. The front of the main shed is 6 feet from 

 ground to roof; the outer store about' 4 feet at the front. 



The Workshop 



is 20 feet by 12 feet, with communication to the apiary at D^ 

 passing a shallow water tank which is constantly supplied,, 

 and has cork dust floating on top for the bees to settle upon.. 



