. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 115 room, 3 inches high and 3 inches wider than the length of a hive. This plat- form is permanently stuffed with planer shavings. A plain hive with square corners and flat top is used. The hives stand on this platform, flush with the inside edge of the studding sidewise to the wall, 2 feet from center to center, thus bringing the ends only 8% inches apart. The entrance to each hive passes through the outside boarding nearly on a level with the floor, then rises on a slant to the top of the platform, and opens into the hive 4 inc
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 115 room, 3 inches high and 3 inches wider than the length of a hive. This plat- form is permanently stuffed with planer shavings. A plain hive with square corners and flat top is used. The hives stand on this platform, flush with the inside edge of the studding sidewise to the wall, 2 feet from center to center, thus bringing the ends only 8% inches apart. The entrance to each hive passes through the outside boarding nearly on a level with the floor, then rises on a slant to the top of the platform, and opens into the hive 4 inches from its outer side. This leaves a space for dead bees to accumulate, so that no rim is needed under the hive in winter. Over the space betweenthe hive and the wall, level with the bottom of the hive, is a loose cover with an inch hole in it. Then over this, nearly to the top of the hive, is another cover, resting on cleats on the studding. This forms a sort in place, and letting them down through the inch hole and up into the hive at their leisure, one troublesome feature of most house-apiaries is avoided. These platforms provide for 100 hives. Above these platforms, 4:hl feet from the floor, is a shelf, formed by nailing an arm of inch stuff on each side of each studding, with a brace, 2 by 4 by 24, nailed between them and their outer ends, and spiked on the edge of the studding below. These brackets are floored over exactly like the lower platform, entrances and all, and packed for winter in the same way. The windows consist of one light, 14 by 20, with the sash set into the wall without casings, and screwed to a cleat on each side, that is nailed inside the boarding. There is a window in front of every third hive. A hole is bored through the top sash close to the edge of the glass, and around each opening. Interior Vietv of Mr. H. P. Langdon's House-Apiary. of box 4 by 22, and 9 inches deep, be- tween the hive and the wall, and makes a very convenient place to get rid o
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