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itable than a narrow hive, holding just two full combs 
of the same size as those used in the other full sized 
hives ; the nuclae hives should be side and top opening, 
and must have an arrangement on top to provide bees 
with water, honey or syrup; the entrance should have 
a regulating slide, and the top an arrangement to 
ventilate at will. 
To enable the queen to distinguish her hive more 
readily when returning from her meeting with the 
drones, these hives should be painted with a variety of 
bright colors, each dilfering from the other. Each 
nucleus should also be numbered and a record kept of 
the condition of each hive; or pieces of slate or slated 
paper may be attached, or one side painted with liquid 
slating, whereupon the proper record may be kept. 
QUEEN REARING. 
As soon as drones appear in the spring, deprive a 
strong colony of its queen, leaving your pure stock un- 
disturbed, and allow it to remain so five days, then 
open it and clip out all the queen-cells that may be 
started. Select a comb containing eggs and unsealed 
brood from your pure stock ; cut a strip of comb one 
inch wide, and make several other openings one inch 
deep just below those cells containing eggs, and insert 
this comb near the middle of the queenless hive. 
These openings are made to enable the bees to lengthen 
