3i6 A Modern Bee-Farm 



CHAPTER XX. 

 HOUSE APIARIES, STORE ROOHS, &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, etc., 

 which I have found to be convenient, and the reader may 

 then make such modifications as may suit his own particu- 

 lar requirements, 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 



