BUILDINGS 
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ings which can be entirely'closed by means 
of hinged shutters are to be preferred. All 
honey-house bee-escapes which operate on 
the “cone” principle ought to be so con¬ 
structed that the openings can be entirely 
closed in case the bees should get to rob¬ 
bing and should find the small exits. 
A substantially constructed tent makes a 
light, cool, and easily moved structure. G. 
Frank Pease and A. E. Lusher have very 
comfortable four-room work tents. The 
floors and side walls are of wood, making 
a very substantial construction and yet 
inexpensive. 
EXTRACTING-HOUSES ON WHEELS. 
There are many ingenious portable ex- 
tracting-rooms consisting of a canvas or 
screen-covered framework on an extended 
Jefferson’s portable extracting-house. A 200-gallon 
honey-tank is located under the floor between the 
axles. 
wagon-bed. W. D. Jefferson of Safford, 
Ariz., uses a low wagon with small wide- 
tired wheels. The platform is wide enough 
to extend out even with the outer edges of 
the wheels and long enough to give suffi¬ 
cient room for extracting purposes. Un¬ 
der the platform is a shallow tank, hanging 
between the front and rear axles, which 
C. W. Johnson’s one-ton Ford truck with screened 
extracting-house on the platform. Notice that the 
platform, while in use for extracting, is braced by 
two-by-fours. The wheelbarrow in the foreground 
carries the supers back and forth. 
The other side of the one-ton Ford extracting-house, 
showing the mosquito-netting windows for ventila¬ 
tion and light. Chas. F. M. Stone is talking to the 
operators. With this extracting-house on wheels Mr. 
Johnson takes his honey from his thousand colonies. 
holds 200 gallons. The screen for the 
honey is in the floor over the tank where 
it can be changed easily as often as it be¬ 
comes clogged. The honey, of course, runs 
from the extractor on to the screen and 
then into the tank. 
This portable outfit is hauled from yard 
to yard, and the honey as fast as extracted 
is hauled home so that none of it is left at 
the outyard. 
Portable extracting-house of A. F. Tice, Los Ange¬ 
les, also shown in another cut. This structure is 
made up of door panels held together by clamps and 
bolts. The fact ihat Mr. Tice is a carpenter and 
builder explains why it is so neat and well designed. 
It is one of the best portable dismountable extract- 
ing-houses in California. 
THE AUTHOR'S PORTABLE EXTRACTING- 
HOUSE. 
For an extracting-house that may be 
easily moved from one apiary to another, 
the running gear of an old discarded out- 
of-date touring car can often be used to 
very good advantage, with a superstruct¬ 
ure similar to that of the Jefferson outfit. 
