. Barn plans and outbuildings . n Figure 372shows; the other row rests on the floor. The hives are onlyone story, so there is no use for queen excluders and notiering up to be done. There are no bees at large in thehouse excepting a few which leave the combs while hand-ling them, and these quickly make their escape by way of Fig. 371—A HOUSE APIARY the windows, which are left open all summer for ventila-tion. The netting on the windows is so arranged thatthe bees can leave the room, but cannot enter it. Theawning over the windows is to prevent the rain fromcoming in while the windows are left
. Barn plans and outbuildings . n Figure 372shows; the other row rests on the floor. The hives are onlyone story, so there is no use for queen excluders and notiering up to be done. There are no bees at large in thehouse excepting a few which leave the combs while hand-ling them, and these quickly make their escape by way of Fig. 371—A HOUSE APIARY the windows, which are left open all summer for ventila-tion. The netting on the windows is so arranged thatthe bees can leave the room, but cannot enter it. Theawning over the windows is to prevent the rain fromcoming in while the windows are left open. 380 BAKX PLANS AXD OUTBUILDINGS The nive entrances match the corresponding slots inthe side of the house, and when the bees enter the slotor entrance they go direct into their respective alternate entrance is painted a darker color for thepurpose of helping the bees to mark their hive. The berryplantation is worked by a practical nurseryman and berrygrower, who is desirous of having bees on the farm. He IMfl/. Fig. 372—INTERIOR OF APIARY said the yield of berries was unusually large the year fol-lowing the establishment of the apiary, and thinks thebees were responsible for the extra yield. The bees gotsome very nice honey from the raspberry and blackberryblossoms. FRUIT AND FARM COLD STORAGE HOUSE Temporary structures for storing ice can be made verycheaply, but we strongly recommend that a cold storagehouse be built with the view of permanence and contin-uous use. Such a house is illustrated in detail in Figures373 and 374, which are taken of a house built by the Kan-sas State Experiment Station. The building is designed COMBINED COLD STORAGE HOUSE 381 to be located on a hillside of such a slope that the first floorwill be on the level of the surface at one end and the sec-ond floor a few feet above the surface at the other. Thebuilding is eighteen by thirty-eight feet, interior meas-urement, two stories in hight, and divided into fourrooms, two on each f
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