12 GOOD HEALTH 



But my uncle knew a way to manage. He took a 

 pipe, filled it with tobacco, and smoked it into each hive. 

 At first the bees were excited and flew around as a man 

 might do if his house were on fire. Nevertheless they 

 had to breathe smoke instead of pure air, and it soon 

 made them so dull that they could not fly and could not 

 even sting. They stood still, or walked around slowly, 

 and my uncle brushed them from one place to another 

 and took as much honey as he wanted. 



When the air in the hive became pure again the bees 

 felt better and hurried off to visit the flowers. They 

 wanted to get honey enough to fill their little barns 

 again so as not to be hungry in the winter. 



That story is just to show what tobacco smoke does 

 for bees. It makes them rather stupid for a while, but it 

 does not kill them. 



Here is another story. 



The other day I went to see a friend of mine who has 

 a greenhouse. Everything was growing well, and I 

 said, " But how do you manage to keep off the bugs 

 and the worms ? " 



"Ah!" said he; "tobacco smoke does it." This sur- 

 prised me, until he showed me great bundles of stems 

 of tobacco leaves that looked like small twigs. He said 

 he bought a ton of the stuff at a time. He also told 

 me that the soft part of each leaf is used for chewing 

 tobacco, for pipe tobacco, and for cigars, but that the 



