. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June 20, 1907 537 Am^ricaii Hee Journal. r^ -wwnr-—t flrfi. iasm Nucleus Method of Increase BY G. M. DO0I<ITTLE A correspondent wishes me to give him apian in the American Bee Jour- nal whereby he can increase his 4 or S colonies to as many as possible for wintering- the coming fall. Well, here is the way I have done something of the kind in bygone years, when I was anxious to increase a few colonies to as many as could well be done : I first get out boxes of suitable sizes, according to the size of the colonies I wish to make, holding from one pou
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June 20, 1907 537 Am^ricaii Hee Journal. r^ -wwnr-—t flrfi. iasm Nucleus Method of Increase BY G. M. DO0I<ITTLE A correspondent wishes me to give him apian in the American Bee Jour- nal whereby he can increase his 4 or S colonies to as many as possible for wintering- the coming fall. Well, here is the way I have done something of the kind in bygone years, when I was anxious to increase a few colonies to as many as could well be done : I first get out boxes of suitable sizes, according to the size of the colonies I wish to make, holding from one pound of bees up to 6 or 8, the latter being a very large swarm. For ordinary nuclei nothing is better than a 20-section shipping-case nailed up, and leaving off the side strips that hold the glass. On one side of it, where the glass would go, I permanently nail on a piece of wire-cloth, and for the other side nail a piece of wire-cloth the same size as the first, to 4 strips of suitable length, so these strips surround the wire-cloth as a slate-frame does a slate. Now, with 4 small wire nails (one in the middle of each strip) I tack this wire-cloth frame to the opposite side of the box, when I have what I term a " nucleus-box," one side of which can be removed at any time with the blade of my jack-knife. I next had a tin- smith make me a very large funnel, 18 inches across the top, with the usual slope of side, coming down to a 2^2- inch upright, or outlet, which was about 2yi inches long. Having the funnel made I pressed the top together from opposite directions till I had it oval at the top about one foot wide and 22 inches long, in the diameter of the two ways across the top. It was fixed thus so as to collect in the bees better, when they were shaken from the frame, than would be done if left in the ordinary shape. 1 then bored a hole in the top of the nucleus-box, which would just let the small or upright end of the funnel into it, and over this hole I fixed a sl
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