62 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 subduing 
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 respect- 
ively, 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, benta little convex, 
to prevent the ashes and tobacco filling the quarter-inch 
orifice. Taper the outer end of the short piece nearly 
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 
