. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 209. An Experience ^vitli the Lan; <lon Xon-§warmer. Written for the American Bee Journal BY HON. EUGENE SECOK. I have been trying Langdon's "non- swarmer " this season. I invested .$5 in the device, and hence am not under ob- ligations to say I am pleased when the thing don't work according to theory. We have often heard the old saying, "One swallow doesn't make a summer," and I think an invention which is to " revolutionize bee-keeping"—one fit to be classed with Laugstroth's movable- comb hive—
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 209. An Experience ^vitli the Lan; <lon Xon-§warmer. Written for the American Bee Journal BY HON. EUGENE SECOK. I have been trying Langdon's "non- swarmer " this season. I invested .$5 in the device, and hence am not under ob- ligations to say I am pleased when the thing don't work according to theory. We have often heard the old saying, "One swallow doesn't make a summer," and I think an invention which is to " revolutionize bee-keeping"—one fit to be classed with Laugstroth's movable- comb hive—ought to have been tried more than one season, and in more than one apiary, before so confidently putting it on the market as a ne plus ultra. If my memory serves me correctly, bee-keeping has been " revolutionized" several times since I have been in the business. There was the extractor craze (a good invention, too, if properly used) ; and the reversible-frame, and the automatic hiver. I have seen enough of many of these fine-spun theories to make me a trifle cautious, but like many other bee-keepers who have been wait- ing, hoping, for a solution of the swarm- ing problem that would not require the presence of an attendant all summer, I grasped at this "; The theory seemed tenable. 1 was prejudiced in its favor. I wanted it to succeed. Conse- quently, what I now write is because I have to, rather than the wish to. As before said, I invested in ten of the devices, and put them on twice that number of the best colonies I had. I didn't care to put them on colonies so weak that they would not swarm any- way. I use the 8-frame Langstroth hive. My bees are mostly Italians, and their crosses with the common black bees of the country. I reversed every seventh day, according to instructions. I found no trouble about working the two colonies together, and no difficulty in clearing the closed hive of bees. Many of these were so completely de- pleted that t
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