. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. A big load of package bees on the way to the office. with queen, workers, drones, eggs, larvae, pollen and honey. It's pur- pose is to supply whatever is required by the nuclei, such as eggs or larvae, bees or brood, and it is much more convenient than putting three of the frames into a regular Langstroth frame. All that is necesary is to open a colony and remove the re- quired frame and replace with the one taken from the nucleus. Mr. Wing's system of swarm box, cell builder and nursery cage is sim- ilar to those in use by most queen- men, w
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. A big load of package bees on the way to the office. with queen, workers, drones, eggs, larvae, pollen and honey. It's pur- pose is to supply whatever is required by the nuclei, such as eggs or larvae, bees or brood, and it is much more convenient than putting three of the frames into a regular Langstroth frame. All that is necesary is to open a colony and remove the re- quired frame and replace with the one taken from the nucleus. Mr. Wing's system of swarm box, cell builder and nursery cage is sim- ilar to those in use by most queen- men, with slight variations. The cell cups, in wliich the grafts are made are all home-made, being dipped forty at a time by a scheme of his own. Instead of the cells be- ing forced into the little blocks with a fastener the reverse end, they are secured by means of hot wax to flat pieces of wood one-eighth inch thick and seven-eighths inch square. Twelve of these are put on a bar by means of hot wax and are then ready for grafting. After the sticks have once been waxed they are good for all time, and when working in the sun are always ready for immediate use; all that is necessary is to press the cell stick on with the thumb and forfinger. The larvse used for graft- ing are about twelve hours old. All. Bliss Damon with a mating yard of baby nuclei, in .Saii Juaiiuiii Valley, in willow honeydew region. grafting is done dry, no jelly being used, and we find that fully as many are accepted by this method as when jelly is used, without all the extra trouble and time wasted. The grafts are then put in the swarm box to be accepted by queenless bees. The swarm is in use all summer with- out changing bees, young emerging bees and sealed brood being given whenever necessary to keep up the strength of the cluster. The swarm holds three frames, two of brood and honey and one containing grafts. It is always queenless except when a virgin drifts in and later com- mences to lay, then al
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