. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 222 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. House Apiaries. In response to a request, we give the fol- lowing description of a modern house api- ary building, in this issue of the Journal. For the illustrations our thanks are due to friend A. 1. Koot, who remarked that they the engraving of the house apiary and dia- gram of the ground plan given hei'ewith, it will be seen that only three hives are on a side. The bees from the fentral one will of course recognize their own entrance, and those at each side, being the end of the row, will also find theirs without trou
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 222 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. House Apiaries. In response to a request, we give the fol- lowing description of a modern house api- ary building, in this issue of the Journal. For the illustrations our thanks are due to friend A. 1. Koot, who remarked that they the engraving of the house apiary and dia- gram of the ground plan given hei'ewith, it will be seen that only three hives are on a side. The bees from the fentral one will of course recognize their own entrance, and those at each side, being the end of the row, will also find theirs without trouble. To make the entrance to each hive still more conspicuous we take advantage of the bat-. sr/L^AM/^-^'/y give a good idea of his own house apiary, with the exception of some of the ornamen- tation. His description is as follows: My house apiaries are constructed of a square or oblong shape, but our objections to such, would be the difliculty of getting the bees out of the corners of the room (this might be obviated by having a square house ?with the doors at two opposite corners) and the increased danger of having both bees and queen get into the wrong hives. From tens on the building, as will be seen from the diagram. The building is made of pine or other boards 1 foot in width, and these boards which are put on up and down, con- stitute the entire frame of the building. Six of til em put as close together as they will come conveniently, form one of the eight sides, and the cracks are covered with a beveled batten, one edge of the corner boards being beveled slightly, that the bat- ten may close the corner crack also. ^. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original [Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons]
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