PREVENTION OF NATURAL SWARMING. 237 
other, because she had thus been unable to follow the swarl, 
hence, these appliances will do only in small Apiaries, 
where bee-keepers can examine each colony daily; and 
even there, we would not advise their constant use. 
Mr. Langstroth had formerly 
devised a non-swarmer block, with 
a metallic slide, to prevent the es- 
cape of thequeen. This was aban- 
doned, because it annoyed the 
bees and interfered with ventila- | NON-SWARMER BLOCK. 
tion (333), as all such arrange- It is shown attached on the hive 
ments do. ede 
468. After-swarms have been prevented from issuing, by 
a method invented by Jas. Heddon, who is one of the noted 
and successful Apiarists of Michigan. The Heddon method 
consists in placing the first swarm, side by side with the 
parent hive, and one week after the issue of the swarm, or 
just previous to the expected departure of the second swarm, 
removing the parent hive to a new location, thus giving all 
its old bees to the first swarm. This is virtually preventing 
a natural issue by a forced issue, but making the first swarm 
‘strong, at the expense of the mother colony. The sole ob- 
jection to this method is that it does away only with the 
annoyance of catching the swarm, and leaves the parent 
colony much weakened. 
