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of an orchard makes very convenient and good smoker fuel 
after it has lain a year or two. For the Clark smoker I am 
not sure that I like any thing better than rotten wood. For 
the Bingham, I like sound wood— ash and apple are good- 
sawed into proper length and split into pieces to y % inch or 
more square ; only this would be too coarse for the smaller 
sized smokers. I like the largest size. One who has used 
only the smaller sized smokers can hardly imagine how much 
better he would like one that holds a large quantity. 1 hope 
to try for fuel pine shavings as recommended in Mr. Heddon’s 
book, “ Success,” and think I shall be pleased. 
Instead of having so much trouble getting bees out of 
supers, away from home, I think I shall make some arrange- 
ment that shall be more nearly automatic. I think I shall 
try Mr. A. I. Root’s plan of having a tent with a hole in the 
top, say 4 inches square. He says if robbers go out of this 
hole at the top, they do not know enough to come back in 
the same place. 
When these supers are taken oil before the close of the 
honey-flow, the unfinished sections are taken out (I will tell 
how hereafter), put into another super, and as soon as the 
super is filled with these unfinished sections, it is put back 
on a hive for the bees to finish. 
HONEY AND FUMIGATING ROOM. 
After the unfinished sections are taken out, these supers 
containing now only finished sections, are stacked up in the 
lioney-room. This honey-room is an addition built on to my 
dwelling-house. It is 20x15 feet, and the floor timbers are 
blocked up with stones, so that the floor will sustain a great 
weight without breaking. Five feet are taken off one end, 
making a room 15x5 feet for a fumigating room— smoke- 
room, we generally call it. On the two opposite sides of this 
smoke-room are nailed common 6-inch fence-boards, leaving 
a space of about inches between them. This lj^-inch 
space gives a chance to put in movable shelves made of 
fence-boards. When sections are to be put on these shelves, 
