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nucleus and also giving an additional frame 

 with some honey. The newly mated queen will 

 soon begin to lay and the little colonies will 

 gradually grow stronger if conditions are fav- 

 orable. In this way one strong colony broken 

 up into nuclei will furnish sufficient bees to 

 care for six or eight queens. 



Extensive queen breeders break up large 

 numbers of colonies in spring to enable them 

 to rear enough queens to supply their trade 

 during the summer months, and they are again 

 united in fall and wintered as full colonies. 

 One firm was using fifteen hundred such nuclei 

 at the time of the writer's visit and were send- 

 ing out nearly ten thousand queens that season. 



" Practical Queen Rearing," by the author 

 of this book, gives an exhaustive account of the 

 various methods of rearing queen bees both for 

 home use and for commercial purposes. 



