BEES UNDER PROPER CONTROL. 
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only give us one like to that I have rigged up for 
my own use, it would be an advantage. It consists 
of an ordinary Bingham bellows, with its blast con- 
nected to the spraying bottle by an indiarubber tube. 
On the top board of the bellows is fixed a zinc tube- 
like case, into which the bottle fits, while the zinc 
bottom of the case is continued over the front of the 
bellows, to prevent them being injured by drip. The 
zinc case is so deep that it extends above the bottle, 
which could not be broken if the arrangement were 
dropped. Slots are made before and behind, to give 
exit and entrance to the spraying nose and the 
indiarubber tube, the former being protected from 
dirt by an external pipe lin. long and Jin. in diameter. 
Mr. Webster makes an apparatus much like a 
Bingham smoker in form, holding in the body a 
sponge, which he at first purposed soaking with 
carbolic acid, but now employs, at my suggestion,* 
crude creasote. Indeed, where common carbolic acid 
is used to terrify bees, the main effect is produced, 
not by the carbolic acid itself, but by the impurities 
with which it is associated, of these, the cresols 
being the most important. Mr. Howard, instead 
of introducing a special piece of apparatus, fits a 
case into the fire-box of the Bingham, thus making 
what he has denominated the “ Raitt fumigator.” This 
case carries wadding saturated with carbolic acid, the 
vapour of which is driven forwards, as smoke would 
be. It appears to me, however, that no additional 
machinery of any kind is required, and that strips of 
* Mr. Webster, to his honour be it said, most openly and hand- 
somely acknowledged my little help in the British Bee Journal. 
