FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 19S 



me. When I go to an out-apiary, I always want to bring 

 home with me all the honey taken off that day. Even 

 at home I want it taken in the same day it 

 is taken off. I may want to go else- 

 where the next morning, and I don't want to be 

 hindered from an early start by having to get it in be- 

 fore starting. Besides, I am just a little afraid that if I 

 should make a practice of leaving honey out over escapes 

 till the next day, some one none too scrupulous might 

 learn the trick and by a night visit save me the trouble 

 of taking off some of the honey. So v^fhatever honey 

 is taken off any day is got into the house before we get 

 to bed that night ; for sometimes it happens that when 

 we have a big day's work at an out-apiary we do not get 

 home till 8 o'clock or later. 



Fig. 65. — One-Gent Cage. 

 SMOKING BEES DOWN. 



When a super is to be taken off, smoke is blown 

 down into it until a sufficient number of bees have gone 



