70 ANGER OF BEES. 



The members of my family are seldom stung by 

 the bees, notwithstanding I sometimes have fifty 

 hives or more where we pass within twenty feet of 

 them many times a day, while the bees are flying 

 in thousands about each hive. In the middle of the 

 day, in the honey season, the air for many rods 

 about the hives is full of bees. I find my bees are 

 much more likely to attack strangers who come to 

 see them, than members of the family. 



To Subdue the Anger of Bees. 



I have tested every means recommended for sub- 

 duing the anger of bees, and have found tobacco 

 smoke the thing when rightly applied. 



Have a tin-worker make you a tin tube, one inch 

 in diameter, six inches long, and fit stoppers of soft 

 wood closely in each end, two and three inches 

 long respectively, with a hole through each, one- 

 fourth inch in diameter. Fit one end of the longer 

 stopper to hold in the mouth. Before placing the 

 shorter piece in the tube, cover the inside end with 

 wire cloth, bent a little convex, to prevent the ashes 

 and tobacco filling the quarter-inch orifice. Taper 

 the outer end of the short piece neai-ly to the point. 

 Remove the mouth-piece, and fill the tube nearly 

 full of tobacco (cigars are best for they burn freely.) 

 Dip with live embers, replace the mouth-piece and 

 blow the smoke from the pointed end. 



With this instrument smoke may be forced among 

 the bees in any part of the hive or boxes. In all 

 operations likely to arouse the anger of the bees, as 

 taking off and putting on boxes, lifting out comb 



