>  An oldtimer told me that there was once the fashion of turning the brood
>nest upside down to stop swarm cells developing.  He said that it worked
>once or twice, and then the bees just accepted it and swarmed anyway leaving
>viable upside down queen cells.

Yes, the Invertible hive. Popular for awhile but went out of 
use...probably because it didn't work.

This from "Gleanings in Bee Culture", November 1886, p. 918

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff61/frenchhill/scan0004-3.jpg

On page 879 is an ad for the "Chapman Honey Plant"....Globe 
Thistle...another good idea that went nowhere.
Mike 

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