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sible and harmless tor a time, but soon recover, with 
no appreciable ill effects. Perhaps the most simple 
apparatus for fuming is that used by an Apiarian 
Society once existing at Oxford, and which consists of 
a tin tube, eighteen inches long and three-quarters 
of an inch in diameter, and readily made by any tin- 
worker. One end is extended and Hattened to adapt 
it to the entrance of the hive, whilst the other is 
applied to the mouth of the operator. In the centre 
of the tube is a box, two inches and a half long and 
two inches in diameter, to contain the fumigating 
material; to receive which, one end is made to 
draw out like a telescope. The two ends of the box 
where the tubes join it are stopped within by divisions 
of perforated tin. This part must be put together 
by riveting, and without solder, which the heat 
would melt. An instrument of this form is adapted 
for most purposes where smoke is needed, it being 
applicable to fuming a hive either at the mouth 
or from the top; for it 1s occasionally move in accor- 
dance with the object in view that the bees should 
be driven down rather than upwards. When, there- 
fore, this is proposed, a bend in the tube becomes 
expedient, which is readily managed by having the 
farther end made in two pieces, to be disconnected at 
pleasure, like the rose of a watering-pot. Another end 
piece can then be slipped on like a nozle, and turned 
downwards, to enter the hole through the top of the 
