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PEARCE METHOD OF BEE-KEEPING 



these people who have perhaps never kept bees before. Then 

 I want to say that bees when properly placed seem to get 

 equally as much honey in the city as those in the country. 

 And now I want to caution everybody that attempts to keep 

 bees inside of rooms or attics or lofts, to look well to their 

 windows and make them so any bees that do accidentally 

 get in, can readily get out. Bees do not purposely come into 

 a room, but if they do get in through some hole, they go on 

 the windows and die there. Then if you take out all win- 

 dows, all bees will go out immediately and no more will come 

 in, so the way to fix all windows that you do not darken, 

 is to cut the glass about half an inch short at the bottom of 

 the windows, or to darken all windows that are not so cut 

 at the bottom. Be particular about this, for I feel sure that 

 bees dying on windows was the prolific cause for the 

 abandoning of old time house apiaries. And I feel sure that 



Two outfits put up a dozen years ago in a stable loft for a Banker. 

 They are still doing well. 



