114 OUTAPIARIES 



apiaries, such houses were used. These were put up at the time 

 of extracting and were taken down and removed to the next apiary 

 as fast as the crew extracted. In this case rough shelter was 

 provided for extra equipment the year around. The Frances 

 have since changed their methods because they now have per- 

 manent yards, and permanent houses were built in connection. 



AV. L. Chambers, of Arizona, has been another extensive user 

 of the temporary cheese cloth shelter for extracting. These 

 houses may be made large to allow ample room for extracting, 

 since their cost is small and the labor in setting up, insignificant. 



Temporarjr extracting rooms in the form of tents are much 

 used. They are a makeshift, being hot in summer and not bee- 

 proof. 



The Portable House 



Since the earliest days of outyard beekeeping, portable out- 

 fits, mounted on heavy wagons or drays, have been used. In 

 these, space is conserved as much as possible, and only necessary 

 equipment for extracting is carried. One description calls for 

 a bed 4 feet wide and 12 feet long, a rather small extracting 

 room. In such, naturally, honey storage receptacles are outside 

 the house and supers are removed as fast as extracted, either to 

 be replaced on the hives or piled up and covered. 



The big truck has made a change in construction of these 

 portable outfits. They are now large enough to house the modern 

 extracting equipment and the power of the truck is sufficient to 

 haul the most complex equipment desirable. 



These portable extracting outfits mounted on auto-trucks are 

 very popular in the AVest and moi-e especially in California where 

 migratory beekeeping is practiced, and where the same location 

 may not be desired two j'cars in succession. 



Sectional Houses 



Several Michigan beekeepers and others use sectional houses 

 for apiaries which are fairly permanent, where it may be neces- 



