. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 46 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW and instead of screening all the windows 1 just screen down to the shelf at the back of the hives and cut this in six-foot lengths and hang it up when I work w^ith the bees. Now, while I am keeping bees in my henhouse and others may also do so, I would not feel like advo- cating it for the reason that I fear many might not keep their hen houses as tidy as they should. But if I had a good chicken house and had bees, I would surely put them in, rather than leaving them out. exposed to all the vicissitudes that they would be expos
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 46 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW and instead of screening all the windows 1 just screen down to the shelf at the back of the hives and cut this in six-foot lengths and hang it up when I work w^ith the bees. Now, while I am keeping bees in my henhouse and others may also do so, I would not feel like advo- cating it for the reason that I fear many might not keep their hen houses as tidy as they should. But if I had a good chicken house and had bees, I would surely put them in, rather than leaving them out. exposed to all the vicissitudes that they would be exposed to in any kind of outdoor wintering. But bees in attics, upper rooms or lofts, are a grand success, as we have fully demonstrated. In fact, it is the only place where they may be kept in cities on account of the proximity of neighbors. It is a well-known fact that ])ees placed anywhere above the first story do not trouble anything on the ground below, so when they are placed in the attic, they give no annoyance to neighbors. There are nearly 200 colonies in and around Grand Rapids kept in this -way and I have to hear of the first com- plaint about them. Bees placed in attics are usually placed at windows, or they may be set on the floor or l)c raised some little distance from the floor. When we place bees at the window we usually saw out a fly hole for the bees as wide as the hive and as deep usually as the sash bar will allow. Then drop in something as thick as a two by four to throw the hive back from the window to facilitate putting the cur- tain up and down and putting on coverings, and for other purposes. But when it can be done, and it almost always can, I would put the bees on the floor by the side of the window and cut the fly slot through the wall. I would cut it as wide as the hive and three or four inches up and down. Cut it in the middle between two studdings. then put a piece of two by four laid flatwise just above the fly hole. Then you can put any kind of a hi
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