264 COLONIZING. 



One sheet of comb containing stores should be placed 

 first at the side, and the brood placed compactly ad- 

 joining. The empty frames are added, and the hive 

 is ready to receive its share of the bees. 



The other half of the brood combs, in which are 

 principally eggs and young larvae, together with the 

 remainder of the store combs, are to occupy the orig- 

 inal hive after the vertical queen nursery is formed, 

 as follows. 



QUEEN NURSERY. 







Take a eesabraewly built* and choose -that portion 

 of it in which eggs and a small portion of newly 

 hatched larvae are found, and with a knife cut out 

 from the central portion of one or two sections, as 

 shown in plate xxxiv, fig. 59. 



h is one of the sections which is cut three inches 

 long and seven-eighths of an inch deep. The ends 



* As it is sometimes difficult to find a newly built comb suffi- 

 ciently large for turning the section in the same, it answers equally 

 well to cut the apertures in old comb and insert sections of new 

 built comb containing eggs taken from any other hive. In the 

 spring of the year it would be necessary, in order to get new comb, 

 to remove a sheet of the old, or a portion thereof, from the center 

 of the hive, about ten days before making the primary division ; 

 this would give the bees room to build, which they would do, 

 provided they were strong and the pasturage good. The reason 

 why new comb is best for rearing queens in is, the absence of 

 cocoons, on which account the bees build a much larger number 

 than they do when compelled to use the cells containing cocoons. 

 Eggs laid by a queen one year old are better for rearing queens 

 from than those laid by one bred the same year. 



