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PEARCE METHOD OF BEE-KEEPING 



the poultry roosts should be, made as tight and warm as 

 possible, and then on that side fast growing vines might be 

 planted like grapes for shade to keep off the severe west 

 sun in the later part of the day. This will be a great relief 

 to the chickens when they go to roost at evenmg. I know 

 that facing the house to the east is quite an innovation. It 

 has so long been the habit to face them to the south, but if 

 you will reflect on it for a moment, you will see if you face 

 toward the south, you make almost an equatorial heat with 

 the sun shining on the front of the long house, and then it 

 spoils your opportunity to protect your house, as it should 



Exterior of a combined Poultry and Bee house at the author's home, 

 showing where bees are kept in barn loft and poultry house, 



be, from the west and southwest storms and wind or shade 

 as it should be, and then the early morning is the coldest 

 time and if the windows open to the east the poultry will get 

 the benefit from the morning sun. 



I think if you reflect on these points you will never 

 again want to face a bee house or poultry house to the south. 

 A house as good as we need can be built of dressed hemlock 

 and covered all over with roofing material on the outside 

 with some closed ventilators coming down to perhaps a foot 

 of the floor, but for the convenience in keeping it clean I 

 want a good cement floor in the house. It need not be thick 



