. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. ^ueen Lamp Nursery Described. 241 With these in front of hive, we can keep the queen from leaving with a swarm. Occasionally, however, a queen will crowd through. By keeping empty frames and empty cells in the nuclei, the bees may be kept active; yet with so few bees, one cannot expect very much from the nuclei. After cutting all the queen-cells from our old hive, we can again insert eggs, as above suggested, and obtain another lot of cells, or, if we have a sufficient number, we can leave a single queen-cell, and this col
. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. ^ueen Lamp Nursery Described. 241 With these in front of hive, we can keep the queen from leaving with a swarm. Occasionally, however, a queen will crowd through. By keeping empty frames and empty cells in the nuclei, the bees may be kept active; yet with so few bees, one cannot expect very much from the nuclei. After cutting all the queen-cells from our old hive, we can again insert eggs, as above suggested, and obtain another lot of cells, or, if we have a sufficient number, we can leave a single queen-cell, and this colony will soon be the happy possessor of a queen, and just as flourishing as if the even tenor of its ways had not been disturbed. If it Fig. Drone Trap. is preferred, the bees of this colony may be used in form- ing the nuclei, in which case there is no danger of getting a queen in any nucleus thus formed or of having the queen-cells destroyed. We can thus start seven or eight nuclei very quickly. Mr. Doolittle forms nuclei by dis- turbing the bees—jarring the hive—till they fill with honev, then shakes them into a hive or box and sets them in a dark room or cellar for twentv-four hours. Then they will always, he says, accept a queen-cell or a virgin queen of any age at once. A full colony may be safely re-queened in the same way. QUEEN LAMP NURSERY. This is substantially a tin hive, with two walls enclosing a water-tight space an inch wide, which, when in use, is. 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 Cook, Albert John, 1842-1916. Chicago, Ill. : George W. York & Co.
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