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and less certain than chloroforming, while its dis- 
agreeable odour hangs about the stock for some time, 
I shall content myself by giving a precis of Mr. Jones’ 
experiences with the latter. Drop* a dry sponge into 
the fire-barrel of the smoker, then a sponge wetted 
with chloroform (a teaspoonful), and another dry one 
on the top of this in the nozzle, when you are ready 
for action. Proceed to the queenless colonies, and 
puff in the chloroform at the entrance (as in the act 
of smoking), say, for quarter of a minute. Then pass 
to the next, and so on, for about two minutes. Return 
to the first hive, give a few more puffs with your 
chloroform smoker, and let your queen run in. Re- 
peat this until you have gone over all those you at 
first puffed. The bees have thus about two minutes in 
which to get sleepy before the queen is introduced. 
If the operation be performed in the middle of the 
day, and the bees are returning from the fields, a third 
dose in a couple of minutes is given, so that the new 
arrivals may be kept quiet. Mr. Jones claims not only 
to have introduced, without a failure, fifty queens ‘in 
fifty minutes, but to have taken the worst cases 
where fertile workers were present, and the most 
obstinate queenless colonies, and to have “ never 
missed.” The queens introduced were usually virgins, 
and this makes the success the more conspicuous. 
Mr. Jones was not the first to use chloroform, but 
we are indebted to him for a simple and innocent 
plan — the anaesthetic, as applied by him, being distri- 
buted to all parts of the hive equally, killing none of 
the bees, yet remaining for some time in sufficient 
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