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VOL, VI, FLINT, MICHIGAN, AUG. 10. 1893. NO. 8. 



Work at IVXicliigaxi's 



Experiraental 



Apiary. 



e. l. tatloe, apiaei8t. 



langdon's non-swaeming attachment. 



SS stated in my 

 former arti- 

 cle, five of these 

 attachments were 

 adjusted to hives 

 on the 22nd day 

 of June last, and 

 that the condi- 

 tions may be un- 

 derstood as fully 

 as possible, I 

 must explain 

 that at that date 

 swarming to a moderate extent, had been 

 going on in the apiary for a week or ten days; 

 the hives employed also varied in capacity, 

 three sizes being used, viz., the single story, 

 new Heddon, double story, new Heddon,and 

 the eight - frame dovetailed. The hives of 

 course are used in pairs and for convenience 

 each pair is designated by a number. Nos. 

 1 and .5 were each composed of one double 

 and one single Heddon, No. 2 of two single 

 Heddon. No. 3 of two double Heddon and 

 No. 4 of two dovetailed hives. I wish to ex- 

 plain liere also once for all that in this line of 

 experiments wherever a swarm issued it was 

 never returned to the hive from which it 



came but always to the other member of the 

 pair. 



The details of the swarming are as follows: 

 No. 1 cast a swarm .June 24th, 28th, 30th and 

 July 4th and 10th, five times; No, 2 cast a 

 swarm June 23rd, 24th, 25th and 26th and July 

 1st, 4th and 7th, seven times; No. 3 cast a 

 swarm but once, on June 30th; No. 4 cast a 

 swarm June 27th and July 2nd, twice; No 5 

 casta swarm June 24th, 26th and 29th and 

 July 4th and 10th, five times. In other words. 

 No. 1, consisting of one single and one double 

 story Heddon hive; swarmed five times, three 

 times from the single story and twice from 

 the double story; No. 2, consisting of two 

 single story Heddon hives, swarmed seven 

 times; No. 3, consisting of two two story 

 Heddon hives, swarmed once only; No. 4, 

 consisting of two dovetailed hives, swarmed 

 twice ; and No. .5, consisting of one sin- 

 gle story and one double story Heddon, 

 swarmed five times — three times from 

 the single and twice from the double story, 

 that is, it appears, the larger the hive the 

 longer are the bees able to resist the inclina- 

 tion to swarm. 



It will be observed that there was little 

 opportunity to operate the attachment for the 

 purpose of throwing the bees from one hive 

 to the other ( except as swarms issued ) and 

 it was only practiced in the cases of Nos. 3 

 and 4, twice in No. 3 and once in No. 4. In 

 each of these this was done on June 26th, the 

 fourth day after the attachment was put in 

 place. But it will be noticed that the very 

 next day, June 27th, No. 4 cast a swarm, 



