. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 104 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [March 30, 1916. When' sufficient inner cups have been removed and used, the cup-holding frame is refilled with newly-compressed ones and replaced in the breeding hive for a few more days. In this w^ay the bees in the breeding hive will supply ready placed larvae for several days. When sufficient cells have been secured the frame is removed and hung 'n the cold to kill the larvae. It is then placed in a nucleus for the cells to be cleaned and polished ready for use at a futiire date. The queen and bees are plac
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 104 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [March 30, 1916. When' sufficient inner cups have been removed and used, the cup-holding frame is refilled with newly-compressed ones and replaced in the breeding hive for a few more days. In this w^ay the bees in the breeding hive will supply ready placed larvae for several days. When sufficient cells have been secured the frame is removed and hung 'n the cold to kill the larvae. It is then placed in a nucleus for the cells to be cleaned and polished ready for use at a futiire date. The queen and bees are placed on about three standard combs in a nucleus so that they are ready when required again to be put into the breeding hive for securing more Fig. .57 Having procured virgin queens by any of the methods given, it will be necessary to make preparation for obtaining their fertilisation by forming nuclei. As the term " nucleus " is applied to all occupied nucleus hives by many beekeepers, it will be well to give the following definition here. A nucleus is a stock in minia- ture—, it contains all the constituents of a full stock—viz., hive, worker bees, fertile laying queen, brood and food; therefore until this stage is reached it is not a " nucleus, but " a nucleus in the making," or to use the common expression, I' making a ; If it is not desired to allow the queens to emerge in cages in strong stocks, the sealed cells, when ripe—that is, those from which the queen is due to emerge in a few days—can be finished incubating in nucleus hives from which the virgin queen when she has emerged, can take her marriage flight. {To be continued.) PRESS CUTTINGS. PAINFUL ACCIDENT TO A CLERGYMAN. " While the Rev. Mr. Stulting was camping out, one of his calves was at- tacked and stung to death by a passing swarm of ;—Ca-pe Argus. We are informed by a contemporary that it takes 5,000 bees to make a pound. Bees, however, s
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