SMOKE AND SMOKERS. 



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SMOKE AND SMOKERS. 



SnaOKE ASTD SMOKERS. We can 



drive cattle miuI horses, and, to some extent, 

 even pigs, with a whi]); but one who un- 

 dertakes to drive bees in any such way will 

 find to his sorrow that all the rest of the ani- 

 mal kingdom are mild in comparison, espe- 

 cially as far as stubbornness and fearlessness 

 of consequences are concerned. You may 

 kill them by thousands ; you may even burn 

 them up with Are, but the death agonies of 

 their comrades seem only to provoke them 

 to new fury, and they push on to the com- 



bat with a relentlessness which we can com- 

 pare to nothing better than a nest of yel- 

 low-jackets that have made up their minds 

 to die, and to make all the mischief they pos- 

 sibly can before dying It is here that the 

 power of smoke comes in ; and to one who 

 is not conversant with its use, it seems 

 simply astonishing to see them turn about 

 and retreat in the most perfect dismay and 

 fright, from the effects of a puff or two of 

 smoke from a mere fragment of rotten wood. 

 What could we bee-keepers do with bees at 



DUTCH SWARM SPECIALISTS INSPECTING r.AUGAIXS AT THE BEE-MAKKET IN HOLLAND. 

 THE BEE-MARKET IN BENNEKOM, HOLLAND. 

 Skeps with bees and honey sell (or $3.00 each, , 



