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Then put a piece of 2x4 flatwise just above the opening for the bees 

 to fly out which should be about 1 inches up and down and the whole 

 length of the house. This will then leave a 4 inch pocket and leave 

 your hive entrance in 4 inches from the outside wall, thus making it 

 safe at all times from all kinds of weather. Build your house strong, 

 anchor it down so it can never blow away or blow over. Remember, 

 you arc building it for a lifetime and so you can afford to do it well 

 and have everything right and strong. The price will be around $2.00 

 per hive, or about the cost of a so called protection hive. You would 

 have to get from 10 to 15 pounds extra of honey to pay for this build- 

 ing in one year, but if you will try it and test it you will find you will 

 get very much more than that. A man here who had part of his bees 

 outside and part in a house, noted a big difi:"erence in favor of those 

 inside, and as between his single and his double hives, the single gave 

 him about 30 pounds comb honey each, while the double ones gave 100. 

 In conclusion, let me admonish you that a single hive is not large 

 enough or the right shape to hold enough winter stores, neither is it 

 large enough to hold all the brood that a queen will furnish up to the 

 honey flow. 



Some Important Things about our Double Hives and Buildings for Bees. 



January the 27th, 1914, was the warmest January day in the his- 

 tory of our weather service here. The bees had a little fly-out, the 

 first they have had since closing in. 



We went through to sec that all entrances were clear of dead bees 

 and cappings, which is a very important matter to attend to. Last 

 fall we had two light swarms that we bought which were queenless. 

 so I gave them queens by the smoke method, but only one queen 

 lived. It was getting late, so I put this queenless lot of bees, which 

 were in three hive bodies, above the hives with the newly introduced 

 queen, which were in two ordinary hive bodies. This made a very 

 tall hive of five bodies high, all single walls. 



This little lot of bees in the queenless part were clustered in the 

 top small hive. It was my intention that this small lot of bees would 

 go below and unite with the colony with the young queen. I would 

 shake them below the first warm day that came, but none came, and 

 this little lot of bees just staid up where they were and ate up through 

 to the top and bumped their heads against the boards and died, and 

 they always will where there is not stores enough above them to 

 carry them through the cold weather. There were stores enough 

 below them and above the bottom lot with the queen to have lasted 

 a swarm of bees for two years, but it was not available to these bees 

 above. The cluster below we found all right with the queen we had 

 given them, so we removed the three top bodies and covered this 

 lower cluster in two bodies with carpets and top cover for another 



