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UNITING NUCLEI. 



But the hives with three strong nuclei and three queens 

 will be exceptionaL Some will have only two queens, some 

 one. If a nucleus hive has in it only one queen, it may be 

 that a full hive is set in place of the nucleus hive, the con- 

 tents of the three apartments of the nucleus hive jDut into this 

 full hive, and, if necessaiy, enough nuclei added from else- 

 where to make a fair colony. If none of the nuclei in any 

 one nucleus hive be sutticiently strong where there is only one 



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queen in the hive, then the nucleus with the queen is likely to 

 be put in some nucleus hive that has contained only two 

 queens. In some cases one of the division-boards is taken 

 away, making one of the compartments large enough to re- 

 ceive five frames, besides the other with the three frames. 

 Thus the nucleus in the larger compartment may be built up 

 to a tolerably fair colony. 



Thus you will see that there is little or no destroying of 

 queens, the effort being to have each queen supported by a 

 good force of bees, considering the size of her compartment. 

 No attention is paid to the matter of trying to make bees stay 



