. Bees for pleasure and profit; a guide to the manipulation of bees, the production of honey, and the general management of the apiary. Bees. 62 BEES FOi; TLEASURE AND PROFIT. until the queen has hatched out, to prevent the bees leaving the hive. It is necessary to watch that none of the nuclei run at all short of stores, and they must be i^ently fed when- ever tliis is the case. Indeed it is almost always well to do this until the young queens are mated and have commenced laying. Hive No. 2, which contains the old queen, may be provided with two or three more frames of empty comb or foundatio
. Bees for pleasure and profit; a guide to the manipulation of bees, the production of honey, and the general management of the apiary. Bees. 62 BEES FOi; TLEASURE AND PROFIT. until the queen has hatched out, to prevent the bees leaving the hive. It is necessary to watch that none of the nuclei run at all short of stores, and they must be i^ently fed when- ever tliis is the case. Indeed it is almost always well to do this until the young queens are mated and have commenced laying. Hive No. 2, which contains the old queen, may be provided with two or three more frames of empty comb or foundation if it is strong enough. It is likely to require feeding like all the other nuclei. Do not Shake a Queen Cell. Never shake a comb or frame containing queen cells if you can possibly avoid doing so. It is apt to injure or destroy the embryo queens inside the cells. If you wish to remove the bees it is best to drive them off with suioke, and afterwards brush off any that remain with a goose wing or soft brush, taking great care not to touch the cells themselves with the brush. The "Edwards'" Divisible Frames and Nucleus Hive. Mr. Edwards has invented a very ingenious divisible frame (fig. 366) and nucleus hive (fig. 36a) which those who are in. Fig. 36a.—The Edwards Nucleus Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Samson, G. Gordon (George Gordon). London, C. Lockwood
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