. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 190 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. the box is too tight or close, the lamp will not burn well. To save oil, and to protect the nursery from sudden changes of temperature, it is better to keep it in some building. If it can be placed in some room that can be dark- ened, and the light admitted through a small aperture, it will greatly facili- tate the examination of queen cells about to hatch ; as, by holding them up before the aperture, even embryo queens can sometimes be seen, es- pecially when the cells are constructed of new wax. When there are many cell
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 190 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. the box is too tight or close, the lamp will not burn well. To save oil, and to protect the nursery from sudden changes of temperature, it is better to keep it in some building. If it can be placed in some room that can be dark- ened, and the light admitted through a small aperture, it will greatly facili- tate the examination of queen cells about to hatch ; as, by holding them up before the aperture, even embryo queens can sometimes be seen, es- pecially when the cells are constructed of new wax. When there are many cells in a nursery^ it requires close attention, otherwise a newly-hatched queen will destroy several cells. I nave a brood frame, similar to those used for holding sections, divided into apartments about 2 inches square. This brood frame is covered with a sheet of glass on one side, and upon the opposite side, each apartment is furnished with a glass door tliat is hinged fast by pasting on a strip of cloth for a hinge. Each door is kept closed by a little latch made by driv- ing a common pin part way in, and then bending it over, so that it can be turned around over the door, or turned away when I wish to open it. This brood frame of apartments is kept hanging in the mirsery, and about 9 o'clock in the evening, I ex- amine each cell by holding it up be- fore the lamp, and when I And a cell, the occupant of • which appears nearly ready to commence biting her way out, I place it in an apartment by itself. Some breeders have only one nu- cleus in a full sized hive, while others make a small hive for each nucleus, and use it for no other purpose, but, to my mind, it is better to use full sized hives, putting two nuclei in each hive, and keeping them separate by using division-boards. These division-boards can be made very cheaply by using % lumber, tacking a strip of wood across each end to pre- vent their warping, and then tacking a strip of enameled cloth over the edges, not drawi
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