The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-01
QUEEN RAISING.

Take a hive and with two division
boards divide it into three parts five
frames in each, cut entrances in each
end which will divide the hives into
three nuclei of five frame, says Texas
Bee Journal. Take from the hive or
hives with good queen or queens
frame of brood, sealed brood, grubs and
eggs, and place in one of the nuclei.
Remove strong colony from it's place,
and place the nuclei have where
the old one stood, closing up
two entrances and leaving open
the one going into the nucle-
US, in which the sheet of brood has
been placed. These operations should
be performed in the forenoon, when the
bees are buSily at work. The bees be-
longing to the removed hive returning
from the field will enter the nucleus
hive. When about two quarts of these
nurse bees have been collected, close
the entrance and set the hive away
and put the old hive back in its place.
Now take another sheet of brood from
a queen, from which you desire to
raise queens, put on the second nuclus,
remove another strong colony, put the
nucleus hive in it's place, collect anoth-
er two quarts of nurse bees, close the
entrance, set the hive away and put
the old hive back. Two of the nuclei
are now supplied with nurse bees, fill
the third in the same way and set nu-
cleus hive where it is to stand perma-
nently. You now have three nuclei in
one hive The simplicity of gathering
the bees by this plan is very great and
the nuclei in one hive is of great adj
vantage, as the animal heat essential
to Matching brood is preserved as it
can not be in single nucleus. The
entrances must be kept closed until
night, when they may be opened. The
nurse bees will have begun to build
queen cells very likely before night.
The queens should hatch in sixteen
days from the time of forming the nu-
cleuS. AS the young bees in the frames
of brood which were placed in the
nuclei begin to hatch and increase the
number of bees, a frame of brood NAV
be taken from any common hive and
one added to each of the three nuclei.
This will give them strength, and in
time another frame may be added
about the twelfth day examine the
new queen cells being capped over
they may be cut out carefully leaving
one to each nucleus. They should be
carefully cut with a sharp instrument
as needed, leaving q good foundation
A sheet of brood may be taken from
any kind of a hive; cut hole near the
centre, square and large enough to adj
nit the queen cell, which may be fast
ened with a pin. With the sheet of
brood and queen cell thus attached for
a nucleus gathering bees as before and
so with all the queen cells. This
should give at least fifteen nuclei
made in sixteen days. The three orig
inal ones will in four or five days be
impregnated. Watch the three queens
on their wedding flight, and when i'm
pregnated and having deposited eggs
in the cells they will be ready for sale
or introducing into a hive which you
desire 10 build up. When taking the
queen out, the division board may be
taken out and that nucleus Joined with
the one next TO it, or if more queens
are desired, leave it queenIess and it
viii at once make new cells. By this
simple method, any number of queens
may be reared easily and safely.
When too late to raise more queens
the nuclei may be doubled up, or if
increase is desired, may be kept over
winter as colonies, the three nuclei in
one hive having sufficient warmth for
Wintering.