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building is intended to serve as a honey store it must be more 

 carefully built, and, of course, much larger than would be 

 necessary for an extracting house only. It should be well 

 floored, lined and ceiled, well ventilated and lighted, but all 

 openings for ventilation, and such windows as are intended to 

 open, should have an outer guard of wire gauze fine enough to 

 keep out bees. The portion of the building required for 

 storage should be partitioned off from the extracting part and 

 have a northern or north-eastern aspect, and will be all the 

 better by being painted a dark colour outside in order to absorb 

 the heat of the sun. If honey storage be provided in another 

 building, as in the case described below, a much smaller house 

 will answer the requirements of the extracting and ripening 

 process (to be described in Chapter VII.). It need not be 

 close lined or ceiled, but must still be made bee-proof, and 

 well ventilated. 



WORKSHOP AND HIVE STORE. 



This building should be situated either within the apiary 

 inclosure or very convenient to it, and should be large enough 

 to contain all the spare hives and supers in winter, and fitted 

 up with the necessary appliances for making or putting together 

 hives, frames, packing-cases, etc. A small lean-to at the back 

 or end of the workshop may be made to serve as a 



FUMIGATING HOUSE. 



The use of this building will be explained in Chapter XVII. 

 The one I have in use at Matamata is very convenient, and a 

 description of it will best illustrate the mode of arrangement I 

 would recommend. Our workshop is 34ft. long, with 10ft. 

 studs ; against the back of this is built a lean-to 10ft. wide and 

 the length of the shop. There is a drop from the floor of the 

 workshop to the floor of the lean-to of about 10in., which 

 allows of that much more pitch in the roof, the back studs 

 being 8ft. At one end of the lean-to is the office, 8ft. x 10ft., 

 at the other end a comb-honey room, 12ft. x 10ft., leaving the 

 centre compartment 1 4ft. x 10ft. This is the fumigating room. 

 The whole of the lean-to, including partitions and roof, is close 

 lined with tongued and grooved lining, making the different 

 compartments as nearly smoke-tight as possible. In the centre 

 of the partition, between the honey and fumigating rooms, is a 



