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The Bellows Bee- Smoker. 



BELLOWS SMOKER. 



This is a tin tube attached to a bellows. Cloth, corn-cobs, 

 damo shavings, or rotten wood (that which has been 

 attacked by dry rot is the best) can be burned in the tube, 



Fig. 115. 



^uhiby Smoker, 



Fig. 116. 



The OrlBlnal 



BIHOHAK 



Bee Smoker 



Fatentpd 18 8 w\ 



BhigJtam Smok r. 



and will remain burning a long time. The smoke can be 

 directed, at pleasure, the bellows easily worked, and the 

 smoker used without any disagreeable effects or danger 

 from fa-e. 



THE QUINBY SMOKER. 



This smoker (Fig. 115) was a gift to bee-keepers by the 

 jte Mr. Quinby, and not patented. Though a similar 

 device had been previously used in Europe, without doubt 

 Mr. Quinby was not aware of the fact, and as he was the 

 person to bring it to the notice of bee-keepers, and to make 

 it so perfect as to challenge the attention and win the favor 

 of apiarists instanter, he is certainly worthy of great 

 praise, and deserving of hearty gratitude. 



Mr. Bingham was the first to improve the old Quinby 



