422 THE BEE-KEEPERS* REVIEW 



I have tried to make my questions plain and will appreciate an 

 answer very much. 



I secured 176 pounds of fancy clover honey from two colonies this 

 year, and that gave me "the fever" again, so am trying to increase to 

 about thirty. Have twelve now. Am using Danzenbaker hives. — C. 

 W., Ohio. ' 



[Ans. — In the first place, going four miles to get a swarm out of a 

 tree in the fall will not pay you. In the second place, you probably can 

 get the bees into the hive from the tree, and when taking off the escape 

 they may carry the honey from the tree to the hive; and then there is 

 a possibility that other bees may get to robbing the honey, and if this 

 happens the robbers are likely to turn upon the hive and rob it out when 

 they get done with the tree. 



It all depends on how well the escape works whether you can get 

 the bees out of the tree in a week. If the queen is abandoned by most 

 of the bees she will soon come out, but you will not know how it works 

 till you have tried it. 



You cannot expect to get this answer through the Review in time 

 for handling this year, as your inquiry was not received till September 

 first.— W. F.] 



Non-Swarming Hives 



By C. A. NEAL, Jonesboro, Ind. 

 ■j^' DITOR REVIEW — You ask for report as regards my expe- 

 IrV rience with the non-swarming type of hive — Aspinwall, Junge 

 and Benton — for the swarming season of 1912. 

 I had ten "old timers" (old box hives — farmers' frame hives — same 

 thing) that I run for increase alone; did not super them at all — let them 

 swarm naturally. Well, with those "old timers" on the rampage, send- 

 ing out "rouser" swarms, the swarming note was heard in the apiary 

 every day, and at the beginning of fruit bloom there set in a light honey 

 flow — just enough to get bees excited — that was long and lasting. All 

 those factors made it a supreme test, and the good boat that would ride 

 such ugly waves could be trusted in the future. I hived "rouser" swarms 

 in twelve Benton triple-walled hives — full sheets of foundation through- 

 out. As soon as the brood chambers were solid with honey, brood and 

 pollen, it was a self-evident fact that they were not non-swarming hives. 

 Benton's way was to remove combs of honey-extract and put the 

 drawn combs back in the center of the brood nest. Ouinby showed long 

 ago that bees so treated would not swarm. The triple walled feature 

 would be valuable in the winter time and in the summer act the same 

 as shade, that's all. The Junge hive went under — turned turtle — like the 

 "Titanic," sank to rise no more. However, Mr. Pierce, of Joncsville, 

 Ohio, has sent me a Junge device similar to my own, but with some 



