. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Sept. 24, 1903.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 387 diately pour out of the hive-body into the confining-screen. It is like drawing honey from the extractor. Let them fill the screen quite full, then slide it up, and at once cork the hole. Place the thumb over the hole in the confining-screen (keeping the wire toward the light), and at once clap the screenful on to the front of a nucleus-box, as shown in the photo- graph (fig. 1); attach it there by the use of however, any bee-keeper can run his boxes for months without loss, and at a minimum of
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Sept. 24, 1903.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 387 diately pour out of the hive-body into the confining-screen. It is like drawing honey from the extractor. Let them fill the screen quite full, then slide it up, and at once cork the hole. Place the thumb over the hole in the confining-screen (keeping the wire toward the light), and at once clap the screenful on to the front of a nucleus-box, as shown in the photo- graph (fig. 1); attach it there by the use of however, any bee-keeper can run his boxes for months without loss, and at a minimum of expense. If a handhold-like slot is cut directly over the escape hole, on the inside of the hive-body, covered with a strip of drone-excluding zinc, any undesirable drones will be sifted out as the bees pass from the hive-body into the con- fining THREE HUNDRED SWARTHMORE ' MATING-BOXES AT WORK. staples, as plainly shown. Now bring on another screen, and another, until all the bees have been drawn from the hive-body. If any are left they can be returned to the hive from which they are borrowed, in the usual way. After all the boxes have been supplied, drop a just-hatched virgin into each box, or supply a hatching cell through the hole in the lid, and at evening set out the boxes and remove the confining-screens. In the photograph seen above the- mating- boxes are set out singly, but they may be grouped in twos and fours as illustrated in Gleanings by Mr. Greiner. Each is provided with a little stand and covered with a board. Feeding is done by means of vials covered with muslin or screw-tops, or candy forced into a cage inverted on top of each hive. Eemove all queens as soon as mated, and in three days drop in another just-hatched virgin or a ripe cell. If testing is desired, cover the flight-hole with a bit of zinc to prevent the queen from leaving the box after fertilisation. When any of the nuclei show signs of weak- ness, take the queen and brush the bees into th
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