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BUILDINGS 
Canvas extracting-room built over an old touring-car converted into a trailer. There are two floors made 
of lV^ inch lumber, the lower one just the size of the frame of the chassis, and the upper one, twelve inches 
higher, is six feet wide. The space between may be used for carrying supers, supplies, etc. 
Interior of the extracting-room on wheels. The cap¬ 
ping-box stands near the front on the left. The 
empty space at the right is for the supers. 
door or one having glass in the upper part 
is to be preferred. 
During a time when robbers are bad, 
allowing the bees to escape to the outside 
as fast as they get in the room is bad 
practice. A number of large beekeepers, 
instead of using bee-escapes, have the Avin- 
doAv screens removable or hinged at the 
bottom. The bees collect on the screens 
during the day; .arid after the work is 
finished, or late in the afternoon, the 
screens are removed or swung out at the 
top so that all the bees escape at once to 
their hives. The building thus acts as a 
robber-trap until the bees are released 
when flying is nearly over for the day. 
By morning the excitement will be over. 
C. F. Hochstein of Cuba leaves an open¬ 
ing three feet wide all around his building. 
This he covers with heavy galvanized Avire 
cloth. Ingeniously made bee-escapes, con¬ 
structed of wedge-shaped blocks of wood 
betAveen the Avire cloth and the siding, 
are located along the upper edge. For a 
tropical climate this construction is all 
right, but in other localities smaller open- 
