414 MISCELLANEOUS. 



tube b. The tube is made of sheet iron, ten inches 

 long and two inches in diameter ; fine wire screen is 

 securely fastened within the tube at the dotted line 

 <?, being within three-fourths of an inch of the end 

 where attached. This wire is to prevent fire being 

 communicated to or being drawn into the bellows. 



d is a cap made to slip over the lower end of tube 

 5, with a fastening to hold it in place ; wire screen is 

 also fastened inside of the cap, as indicated by the 

 dotted line e ; holes are made in the cap as repre- 

 sented at/. 



Fig. 80 is a hollow cylinder made of coarse wire 

 screen, around which cotton stuff is to be rolled, as 

 represented in fig. 81. 



This roll is then inserted into tube b (fig. 79) and 

 after it is set on fire, the cap is adjusted ; then, by 

 working the bellows, air is drawn through the tube, 

 and the smoke is blown out and among the bees as 

 wanted. 



ACCIDENTS. 



Accidents, (so called) such as having a hive 

 thrown over or the comb broken down while being 

 transported, sometimes occur. 



The best way to proceed in such cases is to open 

 the hive, transfer the combs, or so much of them as 

 are fit, to frames, in the same manner as directed in 

 Chapter xix, which, together with the bees, are to 

 be placed in an empty hive as there directed. The 

 remaining honey should be fed to them as fast as 



