British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser . wide, and holds about synip.* There are two wooden partitions(b, b) to divide the feeder into three com-partments, one for each nucleus ; the bot-tom part of each partition consists of wire-cloth to allow the syrup—but no bees:—tojiass from one compartment to the bees pass into the feeder through holesin the inside wall just above the top ofthe feeder, and there are cleated slats ofl-16in. thick wood standing in each com-partment for the bees to crawl on to pre-vent them from drowning. The syrup isjDovired through a funnel into a hol
British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser . wide, and holds about synip.* There are two wooden partitions(b, b) to divide the feeder into three com-partments, one for each nucleus ; the bot-tom part of each partition consists of wire-cloth to allow the syrup—but no bees:—tojiass from one compartment to the bees pass into the feeder through holesin the inside wall just above the top ofthe feeder, and there are cleated slats ofl-16in. thick wood standing in each com-partment for the bees to crawl on to pre-vent them from drowning. The syrup isjDovired through a funnel into a hole inthe outer wall opposite the middle com-partment, and this hole is closed with acork to keep robber bees out. In my latestpattern of feeder the syrup is to be pouredthrough a hole in the roof. The brood-chamber has no plinths, andthe floor-boaids are nailed either to twostout joists (for a detachable floor) or to thebrood-chamber (for a fixed floor). For the roof, nothing, to my mind, isbetter than a large flat cover of fin. boards. Fig. 4. Hoof of Sladeus Nucleus Hive. strongly nailed to end-pieces gin. thick,and covered with a sheet of Neponset, Paroid, or Ruberoid roofing mate-rial, the corners of the sheet being folded,not cut, and these and the edges fasteneddown with galvanised tacks in the mannershown in fig. 4. A roof in my apiary * I am now making some larger and deeper feeders tohold 4 lbs. of syrup. 104 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [March 15, 1906. covered with Neponset shows no sign ofdeterioration after six years exposure. Ifnone of these brands of roofing materialcan be obtained,^ then sheet zinc may beused, but it is not so easy to fold. The nuclei are formed at mid-day onthe day that the virgin queens are received,or, if they are home-reared, on the firstor second day after they are hatched, inthe following manner : — First stuff some freshly-plucked grasstightly into the flight-holes of the nucleushives to prevent ingress or egress of beesthrough them, and
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