i'JSE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



71 



Of course if the hiver has caught the entire 

 swarm the rest of the manipulation neces- 

 sary is not difficult nor is it much more so to 

 dispose of the colonj' with the trap. You 

 Lave the queen and you put the supers from 

 the old hive upon the new, then set the old 

 hive, without the bottom board, upon the un- 

 covered sections and drive the bees down 

 with an abundance of smoke leaving only 

 enough to care for the brood, or sufficient 

 bees may be shaken out of the old hive or 

 from its frames in front of the new hive — 

 not a difficult thing to do, far preferable to 

 the task of adjusting two hives together on 

 the same level so that the queen could not 

 escape, to say nothing of three sets in that 

 manner which would be about the usual pro- 

 portion here. And then with traps it is easy 

 to adjust one to each of the two hives for a 

 few days till the danger of the swarm for- 

 saking its new quarters or of an after swarm 

 coming from the old hive is past, but if you 

 used hivers would you have a supply so as to 

 adjust one to each of the hives, or would you 

 take the chances ? 



Then you have a large number of furnish- 

 ed hives to keep over the winter, dead capi- 

 tal, besides requiring for their safety, watch- 

 fulness and care. 



Another serious objection to all hivers yet 

 suggested, is the fact that it is not an infre- 

 quent thing, in large apiaries, that young 

 queens are reared by colonies without any 

 intention of swarming, to replace queens 

 that have become old or have met with acci- 

 dent, and when these undertake their wed- 

 ding flight they are caught in toils from 

 which only accident is likely to relieve them 

 and their ruin means the ruin of the colony. 



Yes, as I said at our late State convention, 

 self-hivers mean too much money, too much 

 labor, too much loss, and too much risk. 



Lapeeb, Mich. Feb. 21, 1893. 



How Multiple Tubes May Assist in the Ven- 

 tilation of Kooms, Cellars or Mines. 



O. H. MUEEAY. 



'\^ WISH to say a good word for Mr. Cor- 

 ^ neil's ventilating scheme as presented 

 ^^ in the October numljer of the Review, 

 but, in this device, volume is increased at 

 the expense of velocity. There is no delu- 

 sion, or notion of a creation of additional 

 energy, as implied by one of your correspon- 



dents. The scheme is in active operation in 

 many mines of the west for the purpose of 

 ventilating the mines, by drawing the foul 

 air through the shaft by means of the escape 

 pipe of the engine at the surface of the mine. 

 It is also applied to facilitate the discharge 

 of water from a pipe. Mr. C. has not pre- 

 sented the most effective form of the appara- 

 tus. [Mr. Corneil did not furnish the illus- 

 tration. It was arranged by myself from 

 looking at an illustration found in a report 

 of a committee in regard to lighting, heat- 

 ing and ventilating the Capitol at Wash- 

 ington, D. C. — Ed.] It is now made as a 

 series of enlarging truncated cones superim- 

 posed one above another, the draught enter- 

 ing the smallest one. By carefully conduct- 

 ed experiments made at Washington City, it 

 was found that a jet discharging in a series 

 of five cones was fifty-two per cent, more ef- 

 fective than if it discharged without them. 

 Each sectional cone should partly enter the 

 one above it. Bad drawing chimneys can be 

 remedied by this device being placed on top 

 of them. This could be applied to a bee- 

 smoker and would greatly increase the vol- 

 ume of smoke. 



Elkhaet, Ind. Feb. 24, 1893. 



Working the Bees of Two Queens in 



One Set of Supers and Thereby 



Preventing Swarming. 



B. TAYLOE. 



[The following was written to me as a private 

 letter, its author intending to experiment an- 

 other year before tiiving the plan to the public, 

 but 1 urged upon him the greater certainty with 

 which the matter could be settled, as regards the 

 profitableness of the scheme, by having hun- 

 dreds instead of one or two experimenting, and 

 he has consented to allow me to publish it now. 

 -Ed.] 



I HAVE been work- 

 ing eight years 

 trying to perfect a 

 non-swarmer, and 

 work the bees of 

 two or more queens 

 together during the 

 main honey flow. I 

 have had good suc- 

 cess in part in work- 

 ing out the problem. 

 I have been working 

 on the plan of set- 

 ting two hives together, facing the same 

 way, and at the commencement of the main 



