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ize the honey markets and it is perhaps not too much to say that, 

 if this can be done, even the conditions brought about by the 

 European war need not seriously harm the beekeeper. 



The National Beekeepers' Association, being composed in large 

 part of beekeepers with less than fifty colonies, can do much toward 

 educating beekeepers to produce a higher class product, which is 

 much needed. It can point out the mistake which beekeepers often 

 make of producing the wrong type of honey. Furthermore, when 

 the National Beekeepers' Association enlists the interest of more 

 of the large producers and gets strong enough to inspire confidence, 

 it might assist in the organization of regional and local co-opera- 

 tive associations. It must from its nature be maintained as an 

 educational, protective and mutually beneficial association and, 

 just in so far as it departs from these principles and enters into 

 direct commercial dealings, to that extent it becomes weaker and 

 loses the confidence of beekeepers. 



The Pearce Method of Beekeeping 



J. A. PEARCE, Grand Rapids, Michigan 



Rostock, Ont., Can. 

 August 12, 1914. 

 J. A. Pearce, Esq., 



Grand Rapids, Mich., 

 Dear Sir:- 



Having read your notes on cause 

 of swarming and swarm control in 

 August issue of the Review. Hav- 

 ing found out myself with some col- 

 onies that that was the best possible 

 way I am enclosing 20 cents postal 

 note if you would be so kind and 

 answer the following questions. 



1st. Do you winter them in two 

 chambers or only one? 



2nd. If you winter in two cham- 

 ber as your notes read, do you have 

 to feed some years or is there al- 

 ways enough honey in the two cham- 

 bers to last till next honey flow? 



3rd. If there is plenty honey left 

 in them for winter I should think 

 a super and a half super would be 

 sufficient for mine as I put mine in 

 a ten frame hive, also would the 

 queen enter a half super comb as 

 readily as a full Langstroth comb. 

 I have the Langstroth hive. 



4th. If you feed for winter, that 

 is if you do any feeding at all with 

 your two chambers. Do you wait 

 till all brood is hatched or do you 

 feed before on account of a large 



brood chamber ? 



5th. Do you requeen every year 

 or not? 



6th. Do you put any absorbent 

 on top of hive for winter? 



7th. If there was about two 

 combs of pollen left in brood cham- 

 ber in fall would you leave it there 

 or take it out? 



8th. How large is your entrance 

 and what method of ventilation do 

 you use to keep them cool during 

 the honey flow? 



Kindly send back this letter so I 

 will know correct answer in rotation 

 I am, 



Your Beekeeper friend, 



A. J. KREUTER. 

 R. R. 1, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

 August 15, 1914 

 Mr. A. J. Kreuter, 

 Dear Sir: — 



Your very good intelligent letter 

 with Canadian postal note for reply 

 came to hand yesterday and I hasten 

 to reply to it to the best of my abil- 

 ity. I am pleased that you also have 

 been testing a larger brood chamber 

 and are so well pleased with it. For 

 I felt for several years that I stood 

 almost alone with it for all the big 

 beemen like the Roots, the Millers, the 

 Doolittles, the Hutchinson and Town- 



