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other, because she had thus been unable to follow the swarm, 

 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 the queen. 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 oa the hire 

 . ■, ^ in Fig. 56. 



ments do. 



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. 



