conteolltng bees. 



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fire. This creates too much fire when working the bel- 

 lows to force out the smoke ; the air blown with the 

 smoke upon the bees is too much heated, and often ac- ^ 

 companied with ashes and sparks. To obviate these de- 

 fects tlie cold-blast smoker was devised, in which the air 

 enters the fire-tube from the bellows above the fire only. 

 Thus the operator is not able to blow upon the fire di- 

 rectly, to start it, or to free the smoker from ashes. 



With the double draft the slide may be shoved so that 

 the draft comes below the fire until it is properly started, 

 or for clearing out the ashes ; after which the draft may 

 be reversed and the air taken 

 from above the fire, when it 

 will be cool and free from ashes 

 and sparks. In the largest 

 sized smoker, where the amount 

 of fuel is increased, this feature 

 is particularly valuable. Prac- 

 tical bee-keepers will not be 

 slow to see and appreciate the 

 advantages of this form of 

 smoker. Mr. Quinby had a 

 characteristic dislike of parents, 

 and in accordance with this, 

 he freely gave this valuable aid 

 to bee-keepers, without any of 

 the restrictions which would ha^^e proved a protection 

 against piracy, or which would have made it pecuniarily 

 profitable. * With this useful ally, one can perform the 

 various active operations incident to the management of 

 bees, with comparatively little fear of stings. By a judi- 

 cious use of smoke, at the right moment, their com- 

 bativeness is subdued and their anger turned to sub- 



Fig. 21. — ^DOtTBLE BLAST 

 <}UINBY SMOKEK. 



* I have been induced by recent developments, to cover certain improveinentfl 

 in tliis Smoker by a v^teut. 



