Show A R var ngn aila naj RD E N J A A SWARMING NON DEVICE the langdon of controlling the natural S aw arming of flees all beekeepers bee keepers understand the alie advantages in being able to suppress at will and without detriment to the colony the desiro desire of be bees es t to 0 6 swarm most of tho the systems of preventing or limiting natural swarming have depended upon the formation of a limited number of cial siv swarms arms frequent destruction of queen cells by the beekeeper close use of tho the honey extractor tho the cc combining of after swarms alian ing for hidei hives replacing of all annually supplying empty space tor for comb building g below the brood net nest or between the brood nest and flight hola or there has been some combination of these methods ap the last bulletin from the alio d vision division of entomology united states department of agriculture spa c 0 is given to a detailed account of tho the langdon nou lion swanner depicted in the cut and for which tire aro clair claimed ned tho the merits of effectiveness and simpli simplicity eft ty at tho the begin beginning n n 0 of if the to season tho the bonsu armin arming device D shown in the cut is placed at the entrances of two contiguous hives each of which contains a queen and full colony of bees the passages passa jos a 0 on the under side of tho the device correspond to the entrances of the biet s A ai and id D B respectively tile the bees will then pass undisturbed out of and L teto to their respective hives through these passageways eways by inserting the slide el BI in the end of the nou non swanner until it occupies the position indicated by the dotted horizontal lines tho the passage leading to hive A will be closed at its juncture unc turo with the hive entrance preventing any bees from entering said hive tho the wiro wire cone coco exit crit ox ex still pot mits sight flight bees to come out of hive A as a 1 holo ole through tho the er connects the cono cone exit erit with a corr corresponding e sp hole in the front of the hive tho the budor ces cases S of live hive aare A are then placed on those of hire B D tho the flight bees of live A fin finding dirig their hive entrance closed on their return are ara uron upon alig alighting biting at tho entrance a attracted by the buzzing of tho ilia bees at the ilia trance ton nt rance a of hive B D an and 1 enter said aid live hive thia withdrawal of the field bees from hive A leaves this bi hh a so dekop and so disconcerts the nursa bees ases left therein that they will vill cot sw rm mean ts S B C WITH OM ATTACHED while work is going on without interruption rup aion in the supers on live hive B D by the field force of both lilves in 8 or 10 days before tho the L baes aes of hivo hive B D have kavec made iada preparations orations to swarm the tho supers S and S on this hive are all transferred to hive hiro A ilia slide sl BI is withdrawn from entrance e thus opening abia hive and la is inserted in the opposite end of the swarming non device so as to close the entrance e to hive B the bees beer thus excluded from hive B D will be called along the gallery of the armer mer by the bees at the entrance a and with those bees w will ill enter hire A thus bringing about in hive laivo B the ame mme conditions as were pre previously bously induced in live hive A by closing the latter at the same time the field bees of both hives are working continuously in the supers on en tho the hive A the entrance of which is open and the flight bees in hive hivon D are escaping through tho the cons cone exit ex and joining those of hive hire A in about a weel wee the supers are again placed upon hive bivel B the entrance to which is then opened while that of hive A is closed in another week another transfer ia made and so on alternately duri during 0 the flow of honey boney this alternate running of the field bees from one hive to another and back again and the simultaneous transfer of the ilia supers so disturbs tho the plans of the tha nurse bees and temporarily de populates the hives successively closed that organization for swarming is not effected benco no swarms issue and tle the field bees of both hives and without vit bout interruption throughout bout the entire gathering season |