FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES P.T 



not. Indeed 1 can hardly see how it is possible to keep piupei' 

 tvat'k of a queen without having her clipped. 



Sometimes when a queen is being found, she will (jiiickly 

 run under and out of the way, giving one a mere glimpse of her, 

 so that it is not easy to say whether it was a queen or a worker 

 that was seen, in which case the missing wings aid in recogniz- 

 ing her. To this, however, it may be replied that there is less 

 need to find queens where they are not kept clipped. 



Fit). 21 — Calching the Queen. 



BEE-SMOKERS. 



You who have used smokers ever since you began Avorking 

 with bees hardly know how to appreciate them. At least it is 

 doubtful if you appreciate them as much as you would if you 

 had done as I did when I first began beekeeping, going around 

 with a pan of coals and a burning brand on it, or else a lighted 

 piece of rotten wood (indeed this last was quite an improve- 

 ment over the first), the only bellows I had being a sound pair 

 of lungs. Any one of the various makes of smokers I have 

 tried will do quite satisfactory work. I have used up more 

 Clark smokers than any otlieis. Although low in price, the 



