THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



verse the bellows, making a smoker conven- 

 ient to take hold of, blowing the Ijlast straight 

 across the top of the cylinder, using a flat, 

 hinged lid with a nozzle attached. This ar- 

 angement seemed to clear away all difficul- 

 ties heretofore encountered. Large draft 

 holes punched through the sides make it 

 convenient and easy to start the fire, while 

 the grate can be without perforations, thus 

 causing it to retain the ashes, and hold the 

 fire longer when at rest. The draft is large 

 and ample , the fuel bi;rns readily, and the 

 smoker really does more than others double 

 its size. 



It is sometimes amusing to hear the objec- 

 tions raised by those prejudiced. One says : 

 "It gets too hot." I will admit that the 

 smoker has great capacity — it has no equal 

 in this respect when the bellows is worked 

 steadily a few minutes— but, in actual prac- 

 tice, this is not neccseary ; two or three blasts 

 from the bellows are sufficient to quiet any 

 colony of bees. 



The blast tube connects with the bellows 

 close to the top, and the valve is so light and 

 works so easily, hanging in a perpendicular 

 position with the hinge at the top, that no 

 smoke is drawn into the bellows ; thus a 

 difficulty is overcome simply by the position 

 and arrangement of parts, instead of using 

 valves, screens or other devices. 



HILL S COLD BLAST SMOKEB 



The convenience of opening and getting 

 at the blast tube, smoke funnel and lid, for 

 cleaning off creosote, is a desirable feature. 

 The lid is so light that it opens with a touch, 

 and by pressing the bellows the leather 

 springs up and closes the lid. There is no 

 particular disadvantage if the lid of the 

 smoker is not close-fitting ; it is intended to 

 open and shut easily. The upright position 

 of the fire cylinder at all times, whether at 

 rest or at work, and the top as the place for 

 supplying fuel, prevents the escape of fire or 

 ashes. The latter at the bottom of the up- 

 right cylinder, with the blast tube across the 

 top and the fresh fuel between, conquers all 

 the above named difficulties without the aid 

 of screens and valves that soon clog with 



creosote and become an annoyance. These 

 advantages have been gained by the arrange- 

 ment and position of parts adapted to the 

 end in view. 



This smoker has been on the market a lit- 

 tle more than a year, and the only complaint 

 against it is that it might sometimes leak 

 fire. This defect has already been remedied 

 by giving a crescent shape to the draft holes. 



Kendallville, Ind. July .5, 1992. 



The Use and Abuse of Smoke in Handling 

 Bees.— Some Excellent Hints. 



G. W. DAYTON. * 



iN the first place, 

 why do we use 

 smoke ? If we 

 open a hive quiet- 

 ly and blow in un- 

 der the edge of the 

 enameled cloth a 

 blast of cold smoke 

 down will go all of 

 the bees pell mell 

 before it. But sup- 

 pose, before we 

 get the cover off, 

 it slips from our 

 grasp and gives the hives one or two sharp 

 knocks ? This sets all the sentinels on the 

 alert, and the moment the corner of the cov- 

 ering is raised the bees will come out from 

 under it as if shot from a pop gun, and in 

 less than a second will be seen with bowed 

 backs pegging away at our trouser legs. An 

 ordinary blast of smoke may confuse a few 

 but the most of them will go straight through 



* C. W. Daytou was bom in ChomunK ("c, N. 

 Y.. iu 1861. When ten years old he came with his 

 parents to Iowa and lived on a farm, where he at- 

 tended the district school and afterward Brad- 

 ford Academy two years. After a thorough 

 study of Quinby's Mysteries of Bee - Keeping, 

 Cook's Manual of the Apiary and Root's ABC, he, 

 at the age of 20, began the keeping of bees. Av- 

 erage number of colonies kept, about 85 ; largest 

 number 190; smallest, 52. Largest honey crop, 

 9,000 pounds. His bee-keeping has been man- 

 aged in conjunction with other avocations, prin- 

 cipal among; which may be mentioned that of 

 printing, stereotyping and engraving, with no 

 less enthusiasm than apiculture. Although the 

 must study has been placed upon sketching and 

 engraving, the typo's case lends no insignificant 

 charm, and 7,997 ems of solid brevier (an ordin- 

 ary ten-hour's work) in four hours and twenty 

 minutes is his "best mark" at composition. 

 After being constantly employed for six year as 

 foreman of a combined newspaper and job print- 

 ing office he is handling bees in Colorado as a 

 rest from too constant office labor. 



