"In springtime would it bee possible to crowd our hives to the point where the swarm impulse occurs and then go in and cut out the queen cells started "

This is a great idea if one of your ultimate objectives is to raise bees that swarm so bad you can not keep them in the hive.  If you crowd your bees to induce swarming the first to swarm will be the one that has the most swarmy genetics.  The second to swarm will have the second most swarmy genetics.  The one that does not swarm has the least swarmy genetics.  For that reason alone I consider all swarm cells to be worthless junk whose only purpose is to get sliced by my hive tool.

In fact I have talked to one queen breeder who purposely crowds potential breeders badly.  He considers the ones that swarm to be worthless junk and they get kicked out of the breeding pool right there.

Dick

HL Mencken said: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. "

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