84 BEEKEEPING 



keeping and to encourage them to expand 

 their field of activities, but not enough to 

 make them feel that the world owes them 

 a living whether they work for it or not. 



With proper care and feeding a nucleus 

 with a good queen should build itself up 

 to a full-sized colony of eight or ten frames 

 before fall and should have enough sur- 

 plus honey stored away to carry it safely 

 over the winter. Often, however, such a 

 start will increase in strength slowly and 

 usually will require some additional feed- 

 ing to provide enough stores for safe 

 wintering. 



On rare occasions during "good years" 

 a nucleus obtained early in spring may 

 not only store enough for its own use but 

 enough to give the owner a small surplus. 

 This, however, is not the rule and the be- 

 ginner will do well to be content with a 

 slow start but a sure one rather than to 

 hope for great things and be disappointed. 



