FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



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we looked to see what brood we could get in the seven 

 colonies that acted as feeders, without reducing any of 

 them to less than four or five brood. This time we found 

 six brood, which we took without anv bees, and put on 

 237. 



This was the regular program each time : forming 

 nuclei with the brood, bees, and cells on 235 ; putting all 



Fig. gi. — Nucleus Hives. 



brood and bees from 23' 



always leaving the 



queen at 237; and then getting for 237 a fresh stock of 

 brood wherever it could be spared. 



As none of the assisting colonies were overdrawn, 

 they would be getting stronger, so that up to a certain 



