. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. L. lULNLP SrUKSZSRV. .Many h:ivo ol)- servtil llial. in In't weather, if inipeii -cells are taken out just belVue they are ready to liateli. tlie (|iieeiis will soinetiiiies gnaw out just as well if they were with the bees. It is also known, that (luecns jnst enierjjing from the cell may generally he allowed to crawl among the bees of any hive, and will, as a rule, be well received. Taking advan- tage of these two facts, our neighbor, Mr. F. R. Shaw, of Chatliam. Medina Co., O., in the fall of
. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. L. lULNLP SrUKSZSRV. .Many h:ivo ol)- servtil llial. in In't weather, if inipeii -cells are taken out just belVue they are ready to liateli. tlie (|iieeiis will soinetiiiies gnaw out just as well if they were with the bees. It is also known, that (luecns jnst enierjjing from the cell may generally he allowed to crawl among the bees of any hive, and will, as a rule, be well received. Taking advan- tage of these two facts, our neighbor, Mr. F. R. Shaw, of Chatliam. Medina Co., O., in the fall of 1S73, constructed the lirst lamp nursery. Tliis lirst machine worked well enough to demonstrate the feasibility of the plan, but, as lie depended entirely on liot air to keep up the reijuisite temperature, it was cpiite liable to destroy the cells by the un- evenness of the temperature. The day after I visited him, I noticed that the copi)er res- ervoir on our Stewart stove was sudicienlly warm to hatch queens, although no fire had been in the stove for more than lo hours, and the last night had been cool. This gave me the idea of using a considerable body of water ; and before night, I had a hive made with double walls of tin, as shown in the cut NURSERY. The space between the two walls is, per- haps, one inch, and extends under the bot- tom, as well as around the sides, that the body of water may entirely surround the (•ontents of the nursery, on the top. The top is to be covered with a quilt, or a warm blanket. The whole should be used in a room well protected from the changes of the weather. It may be kept in a large box, but it is not nearly as convenient as a room. As accidents sometimes happen to lamps, I would set the lamp in a tall stove, one of the kind that will admit of the top"s being taken off. aiul set the nursery over it. The top of the lamp chimney should be about a foot below the nursery. A second- hand stove, such as was mentione
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