. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. TWO-FRAME NUCLEUS. inconvenient to utilise the queen so soon as this, and one does not then know whether she will turn out to be a drone- breeder or not, or whether she has been fertilised by a black or golden drone. It must be remembered that the nucleus will keep dwindling until young bees hatch —that is, until four to six weeks after it was formed. I find the time a nucleus is most likely to be overpowered by robbers is when the first young bees have just emerged and are too feeble to resist an attack. For these reasons the smallest nuc
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. TWO-FRAME NUCLEUS. inconvenient to utilise the queen so soon as this, and one does not then know whether she will turn out to be a drone- breeder or not, or whether she has been fertilised by a black or golden drone. It must be remembered that the nucleus will keep dwindling until young bees hatch —that is, until four to six weeks after it was formed. I find the time a nucleus is most likely to be overpowered by robbers is when the first young bees have just emerged and are too feeble to resist an attack. For these reasons the smallest nuclei in Ripple Court Apiary are made up each on one of my special standard-sized frames, which fold so as to make two half-frames, containing sealed (no younger) brood, in hives fitted with my wall-feeder, as explained in "Queen-Rear- ing in England" and "Queen-Rearing Made ; In this way these little nuclei have every advantage, and our. FOLDING-FRAME FOR NUCLEUS-HIVE. losses of queens in them in all weathers from June to September are no greater than in full-sized nuclei requiring four times as many bees.—F. W. L. Sladen, Ripple Court Apiary, Dover, May 23. EXPERTS (?) AND FOUL BROOD. [7124.] In connection with the Isle of Wight bee-purchases, I have met with a case where the expert of a county associa- tion certified all the stocks in a certain apiary to be free from disease, but every one a few days afterwards was found to be more or less affected with foul brood. Fortunately they were not sent. Ought I to bring this before the county associa- tion?—John Silver, Croydon Grove, Croydon, May 23. [It would be the proper thing to do in order that the expert in question may exculpate himself, if he can.—Eds.] STARTING BEE-KEEPING. [7125.] Enclosed' is the advertised amount for a copy of the new edition of the " British Bee-keeper's Guide ; I have just started with three stocks and have need of up-to-date instructions in bee-culture,
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