. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 19! 9 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 237 Mr. Chantry was very successful with these little nuclei, and succeeded in mating three or four queens, with the same quantity of bees as were usually used in a standard two- frame nucleus. A year or two later, the writer came to Idaho to engage in beekeep- ing as a business, and one of the first moves was to establish a number of such nuclei, and these nuclei were seen in operation by Mr. E. R. Root when he visited here in 1901. Results here, with our cool nights, were unsatisfactory, but with the publication of article
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 19! 9 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 237 Mr. Chantry was very successful with these little nuclei, and succeeded in mating three or four queens, with the same quantity of bees as were usually used in a standard two- frame nucleus. A year or two later, the writer came to Idaho to engage in beekeep- ing as a business, and one of the first moves was to establish a number of such nuclei, and these nuclei were seen in operation by Mr. E. R. Root when he visited here in 1901. Results here, with our cool nights, were unsatisfactory, but with the publication of articles by Swarth- more, Laws, Bankston and others, a careful study was made of the entire matter, and every modification tested, as to size, as to age of bees, etc., and in 1904 a lot of nuclei were in use, folding like the Laws and Bankston nuclei, and containing one 4x5 sec- tion, and operated on the same plan of temporary stocking with bees, to be broken up as soon as the queen was found laying and later the same boxes were tested, with one section as before, and an old tough comb, with the cells removed on one side, and waxed in one on the little trays that constitute the hive-sides, giving the bees a chance to cluster between two comb surfaces. These too, were unsatisfactory. Next, we tried the modified Swarth- more boxes, with two combs, about 4J4x5f1s, and these, too, were finally discarded. Then we built SO nuclei on the Laws folding plan, with one regular shallow extracting comb, and these were a little better. Later these were changed into three shallow combs to each nucleus, but they were too long for the most economical use of a half-pint to pint of bees, so, as a last test of small nuclei, we adopted the regular standard frame, 55^x8, which were originally designed to be. fitted three into a standard Lang- stroth frame, to get frames filled with brood and honey, for stocking nuclei. This size proved to mate just about as many queens, per nucleus, as the larger Langstrot
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