. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April, 191 [. American Vae Journal hoJe 2 feet deep through the soil, and we came to the ver>' finest of sand which sup- plied us an abundance for the whole build- in?. We plastered the walls on the inside, and applied cement plaster, rough finish, to the outside, covering the roof with cor- rugated iron. As can be seen there is a chimney and flue at each end so that— should we wish it—a stove could be easily placed almost anywhere, either upstairs or down. We use the downstairs room, which is 14 feet wide and i6 feet long, for a scraping and casti
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April, 191 [. American Vae Journal hoJe 2 feet deep through the soil, and we came to the ver>' finest of sand which sup- plied us an abundance for the whole build- in?. We plastered the walls on the inside, and applied cement plaster, rough finish, to the outside, covering the roof with cor- rugated iron. As can be seen there is a chimney and flue at each end so that— should we wish it—a stove could be easily placed almost anywhere, either upstairs or down. We use the downstairs room, which is 14 feet wide and i6 feet long, for a scraping and casting and general bee-™"ork room. This room is 8 feet high. The upstairs is .^ feet at the eaves, and about 10 feet at the center. This room is used for storing supers filled with sec- tions, and also hives of extra combs. It is reached by mcians of a stairway from the general work-room below. The up- stairs store-room has two windows in each end. so that if some of the windows are darkened by having supers piled in front of them there will still be at least one window where light may enter for any work—wedging up supers, or scraping sep- arators. A large door on the opposite side of the building from which the picture is taken, opens to the alley, so that supers can be loaded from the upstairs room directly to and from this room without carrying up and d'own the stairs. We have had 2000 filled supers in the room at one time, and there is nearly that many there now. This room is the same size as the downstairs room in floor space, but the walls, being lower on the sides, there is not so much storage space. As we did the work our- selves, the cost for material did not ex- ceed $ It is the best honey-hoiase we ever had, and I do mot think that I have ever seen a better one that was rea- sonable enough in price for the average bee-keeper who depneds on the bees to furnish him a living. The downistairs room has 3 windows, and one window in the door. One door opens t
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