220 METHOUS OF FUMItfGk 



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The Method of Fuming; 



Take as many pieces of puff, eacri 

 about the fize of an egg, as the fume pot 

 will hold without preffing ; lay the pieces 

 on embers, or live coals^ in a chaffing-difh, 

 or the like s when they appear to fume 

 well, put them nimbly into the pot of the 

 fume- box, and immediately flop the mouth* 

 The hive or box of bees being previoujly 

 fet over the box (with all crevices flopped, 

 that no fmoke may efcape), in about fifteen 

 ©r twenty minutes the bees will be stupe- 

 fied, 2nd fall from their combs into the 

 fume-box. This will the fooner happen if 

 the hive or bee-box is now and then gently 

 tapped on the top. When the fmoke firft 

 arifes, it caufes a great buzzing among the 

 bees, which gradually ceafes as they become 

 (enfelefs ; and then they may be heard to 



drop 



