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familiarity, we have only to cause them to fill with honey to 

 render them harmless, unless we pinch them. This can be 

 done by closing the hive so that the bees cannot get out, and 

 then rapping on the hive for four or five minutes. Those 

 within will fill with honey, those without will be tamed by 

 surprise, and all will be quiet. Sprinkling the bees with 

 sweetened water will also tend to render them amiable, and 

 will make them more ready to unite, to receive a queen, and 

 less apt to sting. Still another method, more convenient, is to 

 smoke the bees. A little smoke blown among the bees will 

 scarcely ever fail to quiet them, though I have known black 

 bees in autumn, to be very slow to yield. Dry cotton cloth, 

 closely wound and sewed or tied, or better, pieces of dry, rotten 

 wood, are excellent for the purpose of smoking. These are 

 easily handled, and will burn for a long time. But best of all 

 is a 



BELLOWS-SMOKEE. 



This is a tin tube attached to a bellows. Cloth or rotten 

 wood can be burned in the tube, and will remain burning 

 a long time. The smoke can be directed at pleasure, the 

 bellows easily worked, and the smoker used without any dis- 

 agreeable effects or danger from fire. It can be got from any 

 dealer in bee apparatus, and only costs from $1.25 to $2.00> 

 I most heartily recommend it to all. 



There are two smokers in use, which I have found very 

 valuable, and both of which are worthy of recommendation. 



THE Q0INBY SMOKER. 



This smoker (Fig. 63, a) was a gift to bee-keepers by the 

 late Mr. Quinby, and not patented ; though I supposed it was, 

 and so stated in a former edition of this work. 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. This smoker, until 

 a better one appeared, was a very valuable and desirable 

 instrument. Its faults were, lack of strength, too small a. 



