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VOL. XXVII. NORTHSTAR, MICHIGAN, FEBRUARY 1, 1914 No. 2 



Bees in Buildings Above Ground 



By J. A. PEARCE, Grand Rapids. Mich. 

 Author of Pearce Method of Bee-keeping. 



"^Jl HAVE been keeping bees thirty-five years. The first fifteen 

 JP years I tried about al! the ways I knew of in wintering bees in 

 the cellar and on the summer stands. These were the only 

 methods in vogue at that time, with the exception of some who gath- 

 ered their bees together into groups and packed them with all the 

 different kinds of packing, and others who buried their bees in pits. 

 These two latter methods seemed so absurd that T never attempted 

 them. 



For the last twenty years I have been wintering bees in buildings 

 above ground and have not only been wintering them there, but they 

 have also been summered there, that is. they have not been moved for 

 twenty years, and the success of this method has been so marked that 

 I think I should tell the bee-keeping fraternity about it. for I feel that 

 I am standing about alone in this matter of keeping my bees in two 

 hives instead of one, as they are now kept by bee-keepers generally. 

 I have noticed in the Dadant pamphlet a warning to beginners not 

 to put their bees in upper rooms or attics, as they consider it a poor 

 place to winter them in. \Mien I read this warning, coming from 

 these very great gentlemen, who are at the head of the oldest Amer- 

 ican Ree Journal, and who are dealing in and sending bee supplies all 



