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COKTEOLLING BEES. 



bellows and tube, which has since been known as the 

 " Quinby Bellows Smoker." This invention I believe all 

 agree to have been original with him. In 1874, it was 

 practically improved and offered to the public. 



It has still more recently been much improved in me- 

 chanical details, but it is substantially the same in prin- 

 ciple, and is, in its present 

 condition, as shown in fig. 

 30, a popular implement of 

 more than ordinary utility, 

 and is approved by the bee- 

 keeping fraternity general- 

 ly. Several bellows smokers, 

 differing in some minor de- 

 tails of construction, have 

 been manufactured for sale, 

 but these are based upon 

 the same essential principle, 

 all having adopted the up- 

 right bellows and tube. To 

 operate the smoker, light a 

 piece of decayed wood, re- 

 move the tapering part of 

 the tube, put in the wood, 

 and replace it. The bellows 



Fig. 20. — IMPROVED QUINBT SMOKBK. . i t • n t i 



IS worked -with one hand, 

 directing the smoke to any point desired. When not m 

 immediate use, it may be placed in an upright position, 

 thereby continuing the combustion as long as required. 



DOUBLE BLAST QUINBT SMOKER. 



The latest and most valuable improvement in bee- 

 smokers is that by which the draft may be changed at 

 pleasure (see fig. 31). In the single hot-blast smokers the 

 draft passes into the fire tube from the bellows below the 



