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merrier,) and bring all Ihe dust pans and 
fire shovels, carts, wheelbarrows, etc., and 
proceed to lav out the walks of onr city; 
tor we shall expect you to go around j 
among your hives all kinds of weather, and 1 
without getting your feet muddy to bo 
tracked indoors either. 
ff your supply of sawdust is limited i 
tftako narrow paths with it, midway be- 
tween the stakes in the threo different di- 
rections in which our lanes run. We sin- 
cerely hope that the wives, mothers and i 
daughters of your household aro partners 
In this enterprise, becauso they will assist 
so much, in keeping it neat and tidy, and 
when they once become interested in its 
growth and development, (for it may com- j 
menco with only half a dozen hives, three, 
■two or oven one only,) wo are sure it will :j 
succeed. 
Wo think it will pay to build a Bee or 
Honey house when you have a dozen colo- 
nies, and the rail road when that number is 
doubled. The building is 10ixl2 feet, out- 
side measure, nnd ns the walls are one foot 
thick, packed with sawdust, the inside is 
ono foot less each way and eight feet from 
floor to ceiling. The floor is elevated ten 
inches from the ground nnd is also packed 
with sawdust and the building is supported 
on a good stone or brick wall laid wit h mor- 
tar. 
fbc whole of the timber used is 2x12 
inch joists sided up on the outside nnd 
made tight (so that no sawdust can sift 
through into our honey,) by matched lum- 
ber on the inside. 
As with our hives, any lumber will an- 
swer that, contains no loose knots. Tight 
fitting, double doors are used, nnd the 
inner ones are so hinged that they enn be 
slipped off and deposited in the loft out of 
the way in summer time when the building 
is used as a honey house ; the outer doors 
should each have a window sash in them 
covered with wire cloth externally, nnd 
these sashes should be allowed also to slide 
down in hot weather, loaving (he wire cloth 
to keep bees out ; also have the doors ar- 
ranged to fasten open ns well ns shnf. 
In the center of the floor an opening one 
foot square is made through both floors for 
ventilation, and also one of the same size j 
in the ceiling above, reaching into the open 
air, hut so arranged that no ray of light 
can enter; both of these openings should 
bo painted black inside, and the lower 
one should hflve n nicely fitting trap door 
which may ho opened more or less accord- 
ing to the number of colonies the room 
contains, or the severity of the weather. 
l f or wintering, six shelves, each twenty 
inches broad, are placed at equal distances 
on each side of the room, three inches 
from the wall ; tho hives aro placed on 
these without top or bottom, and the frames j| 
covered with tbo cloth quilt only. The 
shelves are removable and are stored in 
the loft in summer except a part of one of ' 
them on the south sido, which is a fixture [ 
and contains shallow drawers. 
Kemeinber that neither the house nor 
apiary is ever to he lumbered up with use- 
less traps, even if they have to ho burned 
up periodically, and so wo make no pro- 
vision for storing them. 
The house as described is sufficiently 
large for storing ono hundred colonies in 
winter, (if they are in the dollar hive,) and 
will admit oi all necessary operations in 
summer, unless wo should ho so unfortu- 
nate as to get a barrel of honey from each 
colony, and oven then it might be carted 
away everv night. 
Our raifrond is simply a track made of 
pieces of scantling 2x3 inches with boards 
nailed across on tho under side, nud the 
car is a shollow dry goods box, bottom up, 
with a post nailed in each corner; thffie 
posts hove mortises in their lower ends to 
slip over two nxles of one inch round iron, 
having east iron truck wheels fastened sta- 
tionnrily to their outer ends. 
The top of the car is 2^x4 feet and rais- 
ed enough to be level with the floor of the 
house; the other end of the track is such 
that the platform of the enr is about level 
with the bottom of a lumber wagon; thus, 
hives, honey, sugar, etc., may be quietly 
and speedily conveyed to or from the 
building. 
“Presiding Genius,’’ says a collision is 
sure to result between the car and nnd the 
hive near it, with the curved track we 
have made in the drawing, hut as we enn- 
not consent, to mar the symmetry of our 
“honey comb" apiary bv removing the hive 
n little, the whole thing has gone to press ns 
it is. 
ITALIAN OITEENN FOB TWENTY- 
FIVE CENTS. 
K IND renders, Novice hasn’t gone wild 
or crazy, nor into a gift enterprise 
even (which, in our opinion, would be 
worse), but after having made it plain 
that the “dollar” hive was feasible, the 
fact that we must have Italians occurred 
to us, and also that many of us have in- 
vested much money, and, in some cases, 
with but little profit or satisfaction in re- 
turn. We, too, have had our share of hu- 
miliating results in trying to Italianize, 
and must confess, therefore, that we have 
a preference for eggs for queen rearing 
directly from a genuine imported queen, 
and have no doubt that bee-keepers in gen- 
eral feel the same way. 
On pages 209 and 210 of the National 
Bee Journal, Vol. II., we find that eggs 
can he sent safely by mail. Many thanks 
to friends Murphy and Marvin' for the 
facts furnished ; and now we want the as- 
sistance of all queen rearers having i in - 
ported queens. We will advertise gratis 
t lie names of all responsible persons who 
will undertake to aid onr friends, ns fol- 
lows : 
“On the receipt of 2jc. we will mail to 
any address a piece of comb containing 
freshly laid eggs from an imported Italian 
queen.” 
A piece of comb 2Jx3 inches should 
