1 — Strong colony with three boxes of brood and bees. 2 Super D of foundation is added; also excluder below box A. 3Super A of brood and bees is placed at back. 4-Bees and queen are shaken from boxes B and C into entrance of front hive and supers placed on back hive. 5 After about 12 days back hive should be shifted away and the back of section-producing hive opened to catch the field bees.
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 87, Issue 6, 15 December 1953, Page 539
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761— Strong colony with three boxes of brood and bees. 2 Super D of foundation is added; also excluder below box A. 3Super A of brood and bees is placed at back. 4-Bees and queen are shaken from boxes B and C into entrance of front hive and supers placed on back hive. 5 After about 12 days back hive should be shifted away and the back of section-producing hive opened to catch the field bees. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 87, Issue 6, 15 December 1953, Page 539
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