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BUILDINGS 
Interior of Tice building.looking out into the apiary. 
Tlie end of the uncapping-can and the handles of 
three uncapping-knives sticking up are shown at 
the right. 
Interior of building. It is he’d together by barn¬ 
door hasps and wooden pegs on the inside of the 
corners. The windows are wooden frames with wire 
screen. 
ity are in favor of the portable outfit. 
After the extracting season is over, the ex¬ 
tracting equipment, together with the 
superstructure, can be removed, leaving a 
first-class trailer that can be hitched to an 
automobile or horse-drawn wagon, and 
this trailer can be used for carrying any 
Lind of loads, and will be specially service¬ 
able in moving a whole apiary from one 
yard to another. If the roads are not too 
A small portion of a. 400-colony apiary of A. F,. Lusher of California. The extracting-“house” consists of a 
lent with high side walls. The end of the tent opposite the door has a large window covered with mosquito 
netting for light and ventilation. There is no dodging the fact that it is the most portable ,of tiny of the 
structures here shown; and the fact that it is used and preferred by men who own and’ 1 operate 1,800 
colonies most successfully proves that it must have merit. 
