. The honey bee: a manual of instruction in apiculture. rood chamber;supers; tt, chamber w;th starters; e. entrance.(Redrawn from A Modern In e Farm.) 104 MANUAL OF APICULTURE. LANGDON NON-SWARMING DEVICE. This device (fig. 70, _D), first described and illustrated in Insect Lifefor April, 1893 (Vol. V, No. 4), is designed to do more than merely pre-vent swarming. The following claims are made by the inventor: (1) It prevents all swarming without caging queens, cutting out queen cells ormanipulation of brood combs. (2) Two light colonies that would not do much in sections if working separatelym
. The honey bee: a manual of instruction in apiculture. rood chamber;supers; tt, chamber w;th starters; e. entrance.(Redrawn from A Modern In e Farm.) 104 MANUAL OF APICULTURE. LANGDON NON-SWARMING DEVICE. This device (fig. 70, _D), first described and illustrated in Insect Lifefor April, 1893 (Vol. V, No. 4), is designed to do more than merely pre-vent swarming. The following claims are made by the inventor: (1) It prevents all swarming without caging queens, cutting out queen cells ormanipulation of brood combs. (2) Two light colonies that would not do much in sections if working separatelymake one good one by running the field force of both into the same set of supers. (3) No bait sections are needed, as the bees can be crowded into the sections with-out swarming. (4) The honey will be finished in better condition, that is, with less travel stain,because the union of the field forces enables them to complete tbe work in less time. (5) There will be fewer unfinished sections at the close of the honey harvest forthe reason just Fig. 70.—Beehives with Langdon non-swarmer attached: A. B, hives; S. S\ supers; Z>, non-swarmingdevice; e, e\ entrances corresponding to hive entrances; si, slide for closing entrance; c,C, conicalwire-cloth bee-escapes; ex% ex, exits of same. (From Insect Life.) (6) Also for the same reason honey can be taken oft by the full case instead of bythe section or holderful. (7) Drones will be fewer in number, as a double handful will often be killed off inthe closed hive while the other is storing boney rapidly. (8) Artificial swarms and nuclei can be more easily made, as combs of brood andbees can be taken from the closed hive in which the queen can be found veryquickly. (9) It enables one to care for more than twice as many colonies as under theswarming system. Eesults according with the claims mentioned above have been reportedfrom various localities, but numerous adverse reports have also beengiven, the latter indicating clea
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