30 QUEEN-REARING IN ENGLAND. 



i5iin. across, which provides just sufficient room for the nine 

 frames spaced with W. B. C. metal ends, with the two divi- 

 sion boards, each 

 |in. thick, and three 

 strips, each i7in. by 

 s 



FLIGHT 

 HOLE 



in. by |in., one of 



which is placed next 



the division board in 



each nucleus. These 



strips are lifted out 



before manipulation, 



and so provide room 



to work. 



A feeder i s 

 placed inside the 

 double wall at the 

 back of the brood- 

 chamber. This con- 

 sists of a deep tin 

 vessel divided into 

 three compartments 

 by wooden strips Zi, h. 

 The feeder is filled 

 through a hole in the back of the hive by means of a 

 funnel, and the syrup flows into compartments through wire- 

 cloth nailed on to the bottoms of the wooden divisions. The 



hole is closed 



FUCHT 

 HOLE 



Fig. 34. 

 Plan ot Sladen's Nucleus Hive. 

 S.S.S., Strips. /, Feeder in Wall. 



CORK 



yi/nit>>inn>t}t> >) n>) in 



Fig. 26 

 Tin Feeder in Sladen's Nucleus Hive. 



with a cork. 

 Each nucleus 

 c o m m u n i- 

 cates with the 

 compart- 

 ment in the 

 feeder oppo- 

 site to it 

 through an 

 opening i n 

 the inner wall 



of the brood-chamber near the top, covered with queen-exclud- 

 ing zinc. A wooden fence made of thin slats nailed to cleats 

 is placed in each feeder for the bees to crawl upon when they 



