RAISING AND INTRODUCTION OF QUEENS. 303 
! it is desired to establish a nucleus, for the purpose 
of getting a young queen into laying condition, two 
frames of the stock hive, one containing brood and 
adherent bees, are placed behind the division-board 
! (D). The warmth from the parent aids the nucleus, so 
' that two frames are amply sufficient. The hive is now 
i rotated about 45deg. from its former position (B) to 
j that of C, by which many of the bees in flight will 
! enter the nucleus chamber, whose mouth has been 
I turned towards the old line of flight, while the 
j mouth before used by the colony has been turned 
from it. In twenty-four hours, a queen-cell may 
safely be given to the nucleus, and the queen hatch- 
ing therefrom allowed to remain until she begins 
to lay, when she or -the queen of the parent colony 
may be utilised elsewhere, and the two lots of bees 
united, without any loss or disturbance of the 'apiary 
i whatever, by simply removing the division-board, and 
alternating the frames of stock and nucleus, the 
mouth of which is now closed while the hive is turned 
I into its former position (B). Should the stock, when 
I the operation is undertaken, be not yet full, the combs 
j or combs and bees, as most convenient, may come 
! from any other colony, and the union, at the proper 
I time, be effected as before ; and should the colony on 
i the stock be weak, only occupying five or six frames. 
! it may be made into two nuclei by the same process, 
with the addition of a second division-board {d\ C), 
arranged like that of the Cheshire Makeshift (Fig. 16). 
so that both nuclei are at the back of the hive, assist- 
ing each other in maintaining temperature. 
Objections are quite rightly made to the intro- 
