BEES UNDER PROPER CONTROL. 
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the same, assume an attitude in which they can use 
their stings. While this teaching may be correct* 
in part, I think that the effect of smoke is to frighten 
out of them all idea of battle. It seems to instantly 
impress them with the utter uselessness of opposing 
‘an enemy with a breath like that.’” 
Smoke, then, although not without a rival, to be 
Fig. 2.— Bingham Smoker. 
b, Bellows ; fb, Fire-box ; n, Nozzle. 
hereafter introduced, is the bee-keeper’s talisman, and, 
with this properly applied, almost all races of hive 
bees may be completely and immediately tamed, or 
rather terrified, into submission. If in the summer 
time a skep be lifted from its stand, even with the 
greatest care, many of the brave little inhabitants will 
* This teaching has not a shadow of a shade of tnith in it. 
