120 OUTAPIARIES 



The central plant must be a roomy, well ventilated and well 

 lighted building, with arrangements for power for the extractors, 

 elevators, saws, pump, etc. A steam plant may be installed for 

 heating honey, rendering wax, for the knife and capping melter 

 as well as for heating the building, and it should be equipped 

 with a water system and in fact almost any equipment which 

 makes for cleanliness and labor saving. Its interior should be 

 so divided as to provide a separate room for each operation. 



For the reader's information we can do no better than to 

 quote a description of the central plant of the Pettit apiaries as 

 described by Mr. Morley Pettit in the American Bee Journal. 



"The building is 24 x 40 feet with walls 16 feet to the plate, 

 and a gable roof. It is built on a concrete foundation and is 

 two stories high with a 4 inch cement floor downstairs and a pine 

 floor on 10 inch joists overhead. The joists are 12 feet long and 

 meet on a middle partition, makhig a floor strong enough to carry 

 almost any weight that is likely to be put on it." 



"The ground floor is divided by the middle partition which 

 stops 11 feet from one end for the garage, running across the 

 building and extending six feet in front. This garage being about 

 11 X 30 feet has room for a truck and an automobile or two light 

 trucks, as required. The other two rooms, each 12 x 29 feet are 

 the extracting room and honey-room respectively. It is ten feet 

 from the lower to the upper floor, giving a ceihng 9 feet in th.c 

 clear. The cement foundation of walls rises four inches above 

 the cement floor which slopes towards the middle of each room, 

 where a bell-trap connects with the sewer. This makes washing 

 down the floor with hose and brush, after each day's extracting 

 or other mussy work, a pleasure to anticipate. The extracting 

 room also has a washing sink with draining table against the 

 middle partition near the door of the honey room. Running 

 water, hot and cold, and steam will be on tap at the sink." 



"The upstairs contains the office of the business, a lavatory 

 with closet, and shower for the men, the carpenter shop, paint 

 shop, foundation room, store room, etc. As far as possible I 



