214 INSTRUMENTS OF FUMIGATION. 



Another aperture is to be cut on the 

 right of that for the pot, fix inches in 

 length and four and a half wide, to receive 

 a pane of glafs ; it is to have a fhutter to let 

 into a bevel at top, and reft on a ledge at 

 bottom, and to fallen with a button. A 

 wooden or cork (topper muft be fitted to 

 the pot. It will make the box more con- 

 venient for vifion, if a fmall window 

 three or four inches fquare is made in the 

 back^ about three inches difcance from the 

 Bottom. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



Without a great quantity of holes in the 

 pot, each at leaft one-eighth of an inch in 

 diameter, the matter for fuming will not 

 burn freely, and will thereby hinder the effedt 

 defigned. The pot is placed an inch from 

 the fide, that the bees in falling may not 

 lodge or be obflructed in their paflage, and 

 thereby fccrched. For a like reafon the pot 

 is three inches above the bottom. The cir- 

 cular form of the pot prevents any confider- 

 able number of bees from being detained 

 thereon The part on one fide having few 

 6 holes, 



