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VOL. XXVII. NORTHSTAR, MICHIGAN, JANUARY 1, 1914 No. 1 



Bees in Building — The Pearce Method of 



Bee-Keeping 



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



The Fanner and Business Man's Series. 



■^^^ WENTY years ago I began to pui bees in building-s. One of 



\Sj the first I put up for \Vm. Widdicomb in his stable loft. I 



had known for some time that bees had been kept in small 



rooms or large places prepared for them and left to themselves to 



build their combs as they pleased. I was told that they would 



eventually fill these upper rooms or boxes, and stay there from year 



to year and would not swarm out, and that the people of the house 



could go up in the winter when the bees were dormant and open 



^ these places and cut off honey for themselves as wanted. This looked 



^ attractive to me, but it was said that the moths would get in and 



-*. destroy the whole business, and I did not like this chunk honey, as 



.^^it would not be neat and nice, so with this much information 1 started 



~~ in to see if I could devise something with our mowable frame hives, 



5 large enough so the bees would not swarm and so the moths could 



)"> not eat them up, and that we might get the honey in nice one-pound 



boxes, as we were getting it out in our bee yard. 



The first outfit that I rigged up was three hives set side by side. 



