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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



What About Self - Hiving; Ar- 

 raiigeinents for Swarms? 



Query 885.— 1. What do you think of 1 he 

 practicability of self -hiving- arrangements for 

 swarms? 2. Are they worth the trouble and 

 expense ?— Subscriber. 



1. I never tried them. — Mrs. J. N 

 Heater. 



1. I have never tried a self-hiver. — 

 Eugene Secor. 



1. I could tell better if I had tried 

 them.— Mrs. L. Harrison. 



2. No ; there is too much to get out 

 of order in those contrivances. — Dadant 

 & Son. 



1. I havn't tried them, but ray faith 

 is poor. 2. I don't believe they are. — S. 

 I. Freeborn. 



1 and 2. I will let those who have had 

 experience in that direction answer this. 

 — Jas. a. Stone. 



1. I don't believe they have come to 

 stay, or will ever be in common use. 2. 

 I doubt it.— A. J. Cook. 



1 and 2. Opinions differ. It is per- 

 haps too early yet to know exactly what 

 is the truth.— C. C. Miller. 



1. I have never thought enough of 

 them to try them. 2. I do not think 

 they are. — Emerson T. Abbott. 



1 and 2. I am not posted in this 

 direction, but I have my doubts as to 

 self-hivers ever becoming practical. — J. 

 M. Hambaugh. 



1 and 2. I do not think any yet 

 brought out are practicable. See my 

 recent articles in Revieiv and Olemiings. 

 — R. L. Taylor. 



1. I have not tested them to know for 

 myself. 2. I think that they might be 

 made useful under some circumstances. 

 — James A. Green. 



1. I have never tried any, but I think, 

 from the descriptions, that our inventors 

 will get them to work. 2. Try them, 

 and see.— P. H. Elwood. 



1. I have not practiced it. 2. The 

 roost successful hiver that I know any- 

 thing about is a good, reliable person on 

 the ground at the right time. — H. D. 

 Cutting. 



1 and 2. I do not use them, and do 

 not think them worth the trouble and 

 cost until better perfected than at pres- 

 ent.— G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



1. I have never seen a self-hiving ar- 

 rangement, but my opinion of their prac- 

 ticability is not very high. 2. I do not 

 think they are. — M. Mahin. 



1. I consider it entirely practicable. 

 2. Another season is required to perfect 

 the hiver, and when that is done it will 

 be worth much more than the cost and 

 trouble. — C. H. Dibbern. 



1 and 2. — For me I don't want any 

 self-hivers. We have six apiaries this 

 year, and by seeing all of them once a 

 week, or once in ten days, we can at- 

 tend to the swarming. — E. France. 



1. Theory and practice do not always 

 jingle the same time. 2. Like many 

 other fixtures that have come during the 

 last 20 years, on the apiarian stage — 

 they will pass gradually off. — J. P. H. 

 Brown. 



1. I do not use one. I believe in prog- 

 ress in anything, but I am now of the 

 opinion that swarm-catchers will soon be 

 a thing of the past, like the patent 

 moth-catcher. T may be wrong. 2. Not 

 to me. — Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 



1. They are one of the new things. 2. 

 1 have been watching very closely for 

 practical, and hence valuable, results, 

 but those who do not desire to experi- 

 ment had best wait awhile for a more 

 thorough test. — J. H. Larrabee. 



1 and 2. I believe — yes, I am firmly 

 convinced — that the self-hiver has a 

 great future before it — not for the 

 specialist in his own apiary, but for 

 those who have not enough bees to af- 

 ford watching them. — R. F. Holter- 



MANN. 



1 and 2. When I want a swarm, I 

 want a swarm that can work with profit- 

 able results, and that means a strong 

 swarm. No "self-hiver" will catch a 

 full-sized swarm half of the time, and 

 that is not practicability.— G. W. Dem- 



AREE. 



1 and 2. I don't believe in them ; 

 neither do I think we want any strains 

 of "non-swarming bees." "Alley's queen 

 and drone trap" will accomplish all that 

 is claimed for the last patent, namely, 

 "Langdon's," and is much simpler, and 

 easier to use. — J. E. Pond. 



1. I am convinced of the practicability 

 of this new arrangement. But the api- 

 arist who is continually with his bees 

 does not need it. 2. To those who are 

 at certain times obliged to be away, it is 

 without douht well worthy the expense. 

 In such cases I would consider it a 

 necessity. — Will M. Barnum 



