The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . A MODERN nOUSE-APIARY. winter and spring, the bees are protected by against the glass; therefore it nuiv be wellthick chaff cushions laid on the duck sheets, to have a clotli curtain to drop over will be seen that these sheets of glass face except when we wish to examine the progressthe spectator on all
The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . A MODERN nOUSE-APIARY. winter and spring, the bees are protected by against the glass; therefore it nuiv be wellthick chaff cushions laid on the duck sheets, to have a clotli curtain to drop over will be seen that these sheets of glass face except when we wish to examine the progressthe spectator on all sides of the room, and of the colony. To lu-event the house fromwhen we can see the bees, diu-ing the work- becoming dami), we need a ventilator. II. ining season, tilling sections and l)nilding i thecenter of the ceiling, about a foot scpiare; APIARY. 24 we can also have a trai)-(loor in the cen-ter of the floor to admit cool air from thecellar, during very hot weather. D is the. DIAGRAM or IXTEHIOR OF IIOUSE-APIARY. door-step, and the entrances are shownthrongh the walls, just by the battens. Itwill be observed that the middle hive oneach side has its entrance through, or rath-er under, the batten ; this is that the beesmay have an additional mark for their ownhive, for the entrances (2-inch auger-holes)at the sides are made at the right andleft of the battens. The plan seems to workwell, for we have never lost many youngqueens in the house-apiary. The battensare also a shade darker in color than the restof the house; thus making them ornament-al well as useful. A light drab is a verypretty color for such a building. Besides the hives we have just describedon the shelf, we have precisely the samearj-angement of them on the floor, or, if pre-ferred, raised on a platform a coupleof inches above the floor. In extracting,we can get along very well with the lowertier by removing the sheet of glass andshaking the bees on the floor close to theircombs ; with the upp
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