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THE PKACTIOAL BEB GUIUE. 



CHAPTER XVII. 



SUBDUING AND HANDLING BEES. 



162. Tranquliising Influence of Smoke. — When all due 

 homa^re has been paid to those great scientists whose dis- 

 coveries and inventions have led up to the present highly 

 developed condition of apiculture, there yet remains a tribute 

 of praise and gratitude to the man (whoever he may have been) 

 who first disclosed a plan by which the bee may be subdued 

 and reduced to a temper so amiable as to be amenable to 

 handling without showing fight. For, it can hardly be doubted 

 that all the knowledge of bee instincts which has been attained. 



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SUBDUED BEES ON BMPTI 00MB. 



and all the improvements in bee appliances which have been 

 effected in modern days, could not avail to bring the industry 

 to its present stage of progress had not some method been 

 devised for breathing a peaceful calm over the occupants of a 



