NUCLEUS SWARMING. 105 



ginning to lay. At the end of six days I had taken 

 from them sixty frames of sealed brood and given 

 one to each nucleus, putting empty frames in their 

 places. At the end of the thirteen days, when all 

 the nuclei were found to have laying queens, every 

 one of the other thirty-seven was full of combs, and 

 nearly every comb was full of brood or eggs. Now 

 1 must build up the nuclei as rapidly as the good 

 queens would fill the new made comb wth eggs. 



Each nucleus had three frames to begin with ; 

 each had built two combs; to each had been given 

 one from the hives ; hence in each there were now 

 six frames. It would take six frames more to fill 

 them full, or thiee hundred and sixty frames in all. 

 To meet this demand I had the thirty-five supers 

 each containing twelve frames, which had been used 

 for surplus honey during the white clover and linn 

 harvest. Of these frames one hundred and eight 

 contained the drone comb sorted out when trans- 

 ferring, leaving two hundred and ninety-two frames 

 of good worker comb, all built during that season. 

 Seventy-seven more frames would give me a com- 

 plement for the brood chamber of every hive, both 

 old and new. From the thirty-seven hives I now 

 took one hundred and twenty frames, containing 

 larvae and eggs, and gave two to each nucleus, thus 

 increasing its number to eight. Bees do not often 

 rear brood in the outside frames in a hive, so I took 



