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giving a pound or two of bees purchased from some other bee- 
keeper, what precautions would you use in uniting the purchased 
bees to the nuclei? 
Fig. 22. — Examining a baby nucleus. 
A. Might do one of several ways. One way is to sprinkle all 
thoroughly with sweetened water. Or, shake them up in a dish- 
pan till they don’t know “where they are at.” Or, put the added 
bees in an upper story for a few days, separated from the lower 
story by a wire-cloth. During a honey crop they may be given 
right at the entrance of the colony to be helped. 
Q. Is it best to set nuclei quite a distance from strong col- 
onies? 
A. I don’t believe it makes much difference. 
Q. When forming a single or twin nucleus, which is the better 
to use, a ripe queen-cell or a virgin queen? 
A. There is little to choose. If a cell is given, the young 
queen is more sure of kind treatment than when a virgin is intro- 
duced. On the other hand it sometimes happens that the virgin 
in the cell has imperfect wings, and she may even be dead, and 
