fHB BEK-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



Another lot of combs, bees and cells 

 can at once be placed on the same stand 

 to catch the returning bees, and worked 

 in a like manner, to be again and again 

 repeated if necessar}', but, of course, in 

 the latter case, care should be exercised 

 in selecting all sealed and hatching brood. 



allowing the queens to hatch out in a 

 nursery hereinbefore stated, all is readv 

 to form nuclei, without having unsealed 

 brood in the combs to starve as is often 

 the case when drawn from normal col- 

 onies; besides, bees thus treated will re- 

 main in the nuclei better than those 



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153 



.\fter ascertaining how to have virgins 

 or cells accepted, that is, to bring about 

 the conditions necessary un<lcr varying 

 circumstances, it is not only a waste of 

 time, but often proves to be a loss, to 

 open a nucleus from the time a virgin is 

 two days old until the time for her to be 



next morning. A stroll in the evening 

 among Ihoss containing queens of mating 

 age will often save time, as there will be 

 considerable distress manifested where a 

 q\ieen has taken her wedding tour and 

 failed to return, which is sometimes kept 

 up until the next inoniing, t.ut usually 



:^ 



as the combs will be used within two 

 days for forming nuclei. 



When queenless bees are not used as 

 cell builders a queen can be removed 

 from a colony and other bodies piled on 

 provided in a like manner a few days be- 

 fore nuclei are to be formed, and by 



CELL-CUP.S. COMPI FTKn PEI IS A\n nilEFX-NURSERV, * Ol BY \V H Pijinrcv 



CELL-CUPS, COMPLETED CELLS AND QUEEX-NURSERV 



taken from a colony with a queen, even if 

 cells be given, instead of queens. 



After getting the bees in shape, to be 

 ready for foiming nuclei, they should be 

 fed all the syrup they will take every 

 evening, until the divisions are made, 

 except during a flow. 



BY W. H. I'I(IIii;E.V. tHEtli, \oi;th CAKOLINA. 



laying. Virgins are hard to find, and the 

 bees often act as though they were queen- 

 less while the virgin queens may be pres- 

 et; and, worst of all, often kill them if 

 no honey is being stored, if disturbed. 



If virgins are given and not accepted 

 they can often be found near the entrance 



by that time all is quiet. Such cases 

 should be noted, and cells or queens 

 given the rie^A'f day. 



The tin divisions in the nursery are 

 i^x^s inches, and are slightly let into 

 saw kerfs at the bottom, and are ^% of an 

 inch apart, thus forming apartments 



