MANUAL OF THE APIARY. 1G7 



till they shall have sufficient to preserve a proper temperature. 

 In this case the queen-cell should be inserted just before the 

 bees are added ; in the other case, either before or after. 

 Such special articles about the apiary are costly and incon- 

 venient. I believe that I should use hives even with the 

 largest frames for nuclei. In this case we should need to 

 give more bees. To insert the queen-cell — for we are now to 

 give one to each nucleus, so we can never form more nuclei 

 than we have capped queen-cells — we first cut them out, 

 commencing to cut on either side the base of the cell, at least 

 one-half inch distant, we must not in the least comjiress the 

 cell, then cutting up and out for two inches, then across oppo- 

 site the cell. This leaves the cell attached to a wedge- 



riG. 56. 



shaped piece of comb (Fig. 56), whose apex is next the cell. 

 A similar cut in the middle frame of the nucleus, which in 

 case of the regular frames is the one containing brood, will 

 furnish an opening to receive the wedge containing the cell. 

 The comb should also be cut away beneath (Fig. 56), so that 

 the cell cannot be compressed. After all the nuclei have 

 received their cells and bees, they have only to be set in a 

 shady place and watched to see that sufficient bees remain. 

 Should too many leave, give them more by removing the cover 



