Gleanings in bee culture . ventilation. MAKING NUCLEI. If the brood has been spread according tothe plan I gave on page 1041, Dec. 15,1915,and repeated every two weeks, the makingof nuclei is simple. When bees are flyingfreely, and most of the field workers areaway from home, open a stock with as littledisturbance as possible, taking out a combof brood and all the nurse bees, also a combof honey and bees. This should be sufficientto form a nucleus. Close up the entrancewith soft paper, as previously mentioned,for one or two days. By this method nucleican be made in tlie same apiary. The cells,
Gleanings in bee culture . ventilation. MAKING NUCLEI. If the brood has been spread according tothe plan I gave on page 1041, Dec. 15,1915,and repeated every two weeks, the makingof nuclei is simple. When bees are flyingfreely, and most of the field workers areaway from home, open a stock with as littledisturbance as possible, taking out a combof brood and all the nurse bees, also a combof honey and bees. This should be sufficientto form a nucleus. Close up the entrancewith soft paper, as previously mentioned,for one or two days. By this method nucleican be made in tlie same apiary. The cells,when cutfrom the cell-building colo-ny, are insert-ed into thenuclei by cut-ting out apiece of comb and pressing the cell into theapex, leaving the space below for the nursesto crowd around. At the same time a cellso placed is neither crushed nor torn bycrowding against the next comb. THE RECORD. The nucleus record, as given in a previousarticle, I have slightly improved. The wantand spare columns are the same; the simple. JULY 15, 1916 603 terms cell, lifa/riZ oS/tct^ virgin, queen,are the sameexcept thatthree gradesare added forthe queen —extra good,good, and me-dium. The queenis judged bylooks; ande X p e r ienceenables the apiarist to detect the appearance oi aa ex-trn-good queen. The nuisance of carryingaround blocks, and the wind blowing thesame way, is done away with by the use ofharness rivets, which can be carried in the GoxroC CM CjcU CjJK pocket, and as many used on each hive asrequired. Small holes are bored at thepoints indicated, and the rivets pushed intothe holes. The diagram would readas follows: The two rivetsshown in the want columnindicate bees and cell want-ed; the rivet at medium,queen combined with cellwanted, shows a poorqueen; hence cell wantedbecause the queen is toopoor, but she will hold thecolony in shape if no cell is available. Atthe same time it is known there is a queento look for and kill before inserting the , more bees are r
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