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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 14ft. 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 
