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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



If baby nuclei are carried away 

 from all other bees to the "mating' 

 grounds," no robbing occurs even 

 though there may be a dearth of honey. 

 With only one little comb, and that 

 well filled with honey, the bees busy 

 themselves moving honey, clearing up 

 a little spot about the size of a dollar, 

 for the brood nest, and in secreting 

 wax to build little spurs from the 

 comb to the side of the box. When 

 empty, these little combs make the 

 nicest little brood nest for the next lot 

 of bees and queen, and they never fail 

 to accept such a spot as the proper 

 place to begin. 



If so desired, ripe cells may be given 

 instead of virgins, but our progress 

 at turning out queens will not be so 

 rapid. 



Upon one occasion, 57 ripe cells 

 from a favorite queen were given, the 

 nuclei hauled 15 miles to mate to 



special drones, and I succeeded in get- 

 ting 51 laying queens from this lot. 



Seventy-four baby nuclei were 

 pitched out under the brush the last 

 week in October, each containing a vir- 

 gin queen, and I saw them no more 

 until the second week in January, after 

 a slight freeze, yet from them I took 

 twenty-four laying queens. Others 

 perished with the cold. 



The advantages of this new system 

 of queen mating are evident. Thou- 

 sands of queens may be mated without 

 the loss of tearing up j^our colonies into 

 the old style nuclei, rendering all 

 worthless for a crop of honey, and 

 weakening your full colonies; instead, 

 all the bees of one colony may be used 

 to mate several hundred queens, and, 

 in five or six days all may be returned 

 to their parental home. 



Beeville, Tex., Jan. 24, 1904. 



Foirtlalble MoEiiey fl®mse© aimed Tlnel^ 



BY E. D. TOWNSEND. 



©NE of the first things I learned, 

 with out-yards on rented ground, 

 was the uncertainty of how long an 

 apiary would be left in a certain place. 

 To illustrate: One yard was located 

 too near the highwa}', and the bees 

 bothered teams that went by, hence it 

 had to be moved to another part of the 

 farm. One man sold out, and the new 

 man wouldn't have bees on his farm 

 under any consideration. Then an- 

 other apiary was moved to a better 

 location. Still another was moved 

 from a location, that was otherwise 

 good, on account of thieves bothering 

 so much. Next spring I expect to 

 move ore apiary 100 miles on the cars. 

 All this has caused me to build every- 

 thing portable. The greatest diffi- 



culty in this direction is that of mak- 

 ing a good, portable honey-house; but 

 I have accomplished it, and at each of 

 mj' apiaries I have a 12x16, sectional 

 house built as follows. 



DETAILS OF CONSTRUCTION. 



The foundation is in two sections, 

 8x12 feet in size, and is built of 2x6 

 inch material, placed 16 inches apart, 

 with a 2x6 spiked on the ends. The 

 floor, like the sides of the building, is 

 of matched material. The sides and 

 ends of the house are built separate, 

 and are held together at the corners by 

 means of bolts. The posts are five 

 feet ten inches. The roof is one-third 

 pitch, is shingled, and each half is 

 built separate. The frame-work, ex- 

 cept the foundation, is all of 2 x 4 inch 



