' PEARCE METHOD OF BEE-KEEPING 11 



Complete Bill for a Finished House 



(By the Pearce Method.) 



200 feet of 3 inch strips, Pine or Cypress. 

 24 pieces of 2 x 4, 14 feet long. 

 60 pieces of 6 inch German siding, 14 feet long. 

 150 feet of Dressed Hemlock No. 1. 

 5 windows 14 x 18, one light cut i/g" short. 

 2 rolls of Roofing. 

 20 pounds of 8 nails. 

 5 pounds of 20 spikes. 

 2 pounds of 6 casing nails. 

 8 pairs of 5 inch butts. 



1 Rim Lock. 



2 sacks of cement. 



CHAPTER IV 

 How to Build a Shelter for Out Apiaries. 



Having told you in a former chapter just how to build 

 a shelter for ten colonies for the small bee-keeper, and given 

 you the dimensions for that, I will refer you to that chapter 

 for specifications which I do not give here. 



The shelter that I shall recommend here is like the 

 other, six and one-half feet wide by six and one-half feet 

 high, and as to length, build for all the bees you have. About 

 the only changes I would make from the other house, would 

 be in the windows and the table in the aisle. It would not 

 be necessary to put windows in these buildings if you did 

 not want to, but could substitute shutters instead, as the 

 boys are so liable to pelt the glass from an isolated building. 

 For this reason and for the economy of it, I would omit them. 



To make the shutters : If you build with German sid- 

 ing you could side up some four feet, and then you could 

 tack on loosely, four pieces of siding that you intend for 

 shutters. Then on the inside, in every space between the 

 studding, you could put a cleat or more on these strips of 



