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ventilation, and in which are to be placed a comb of stores (both 

 honey and pollen), with three or four hundred bees. These may 

 be side combs from nuclei already established, and should con- 

 tain no brood. 



After the confined bees have been in an uproar for a short 

 time, having already made provision for a small opening, allow 

 the young queen to run in. Keep these in a dark room and use 

 as needed in outside nuclei. 



It has been observed that a young queen feeds upon pollen 

 extensively until she has met the drone, from which time she is 

 fed by the bees entirely upon digested food. Now just here I wish 

 to show the 



Folly of keeping Young Queens confined 



in the frame nurseries for a number of days after hatching, as is 

 done extensively, especially in several American queen-raising 

 apiaries. 



Without the nitrogenous food at this time, when their consti- 

 tutions should be established, they are dragging out their existence 

 upon sugar alone at the most important period of their growth. 

 The editor of the American Bee Journal has repeatedly given his 

 voice against the cheap queen traflSc, and is it any wonder when 

 they are produced wholesale with constitutions thus impaired ? 



The confined one-frame nucleus certainly takes up more space 

 and time, but both are amply paid for by getting more substantial 

 stock, while queens being able to feed naturally will get mated 

 sooner than those with a weakened frame. 



On p. 45 it will have been noticed that for 



Supplying all Hives with Young Queens 



yearly, and to compensate for the non-increase of stocks, one 

 colony in ten is to be devoted to increase by nuclei. In this case 

 the tenth hives are to be stimulated for brood rearing until the 

 end of June, when there should be at least three chambers nearly 

 full of brood in all stages. However, to be within limit we will 

 say twenty combs of brood and a number of stored and partly- 

 stored combs. 



