Xll CONTENTS. 



Chapter XIV. 



BEE-KKEPING IN HOTJ CLIMATES. 



Thick Wood should be Used for the Construction of Bee-hives in 

 Hot Climates — Great Necessity for Shading Hives — The Best 

 Method of Artificially Increasing the Number of Stocks of 

 Bees in Hot Climates— Baby Nuclei — The Use of Sections as 

 Miniature Frames — South African Standard Size Frames — 

 Fitting the Sections into Frames — No-bee-way Sections — 

 Hatching Bee Brood in Chicken Incubators — Its Advantages 

 — Bees thus Hatched will not Desert Nuclei— How to Convert 

 Sections into Miniature Frames — Removing the Bees from 

 the Incubator to the Baby Nucleus Hives — The Newly Forn.ed 

 Nuclei should be Stood in a Warm Room for a Few Days 

 before being put out in the Apiary — The Danger of Robbing 

 —Baby Nuclei must Always be Fed— Baby Nucleus Hive- 

 Rapid ^Method of Building up Baby Nuclei into Strong Stocks 

 — Hatching Queens in Incubators — How to Make a Natural 

 Incubator— Bee-keeping in Canada, Australia, and South 

 Africa— Ants must be Guarded against — Conclusion pp. 101 — lb") 



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