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closer proximity. Though a pair of bellows is effectual 
in quicting them, they must never be blown with the 
mouth, for the human breath is to them an 
abomination. Again, the hand should not be waved 
near them, nor even pointed at them. It is further 
advised not to approach them with the head 
uncovercd, lest a bee might settle, or be blown against 
the hair, and there become entangled. When one of 
them has stung, the others know of the fact by the 
smell, and are incited thereby to go and do likewise ; 
while, if one of them is erushed, there will be a 
whole troop of speedy avengers aroused. The safest 
time for performing operations in the hive is during a 
pleasant day atan hour when most of the older bees are 
abroad. Stinging ensues when the hive is supposed 
to be endangered, and it is only under actual pro- 
vocation, or circumstances wholly exceptional, that it 
is to be feared from a bee upon the wing. 
MISCELLANEOUS APPARATUS. 
We have had occasion to make an incidental 
allusion to several fittings and appliances besides the 
two or three which have formed the subjects of 
separate sections. But, in addition to these, there are 
a host of articles of more or less necessity or 
convenicnce, a full description of which would very 
materially enlarge our work, especially if we were to 
take into account the many rival contrivances of 
different makers. All that it therefore scems desirable 
to do is to append a list, with the bricfest possible 
descriptive remarks, of those species of apparatus which 
