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of sulphur, by filling my lungs and then holding my breath 
till I came out again. It is best, if possible, to avoid this, 
especially for those of weak lungs, or those who are nervous. 
Sometimes I have had only a few supers to fumigate. In 
such case I take a wooden hive-cover, put it upside down on 
the floor, and place a super on it. The super is not large 
enough to cover the whole of the hive-cover, so one end of 
the cover is left open. In this end I set a small dish, usually 
an old oyster-can, containing ashes with sulphur in it. A 
board is used to cover over this open end of the hive-cover, 
and to prevent this board from taking fire, a piece of old tin 
or sheet-iron is placed over the sulphur. Other supers are 
piled upon the first, and the upper one covered tight. 1 have 
been more apt to use too much sulphur in this way than 
when I smoked a whole roomful. It does no great harrrf, but 
makes some of the sectious look as if covered witli a kind of 
green mould. I suppose some might say I should bum the 
sulphur on the top instead of at the bottom of the pile ; as 
the sulphurous acid fumes are heavier than air, hence will 
fall. I can say, in reply, that my plan has worked well in 
practice. Moreover, the law of diffusion of gases mixes the 
fumes with the air, and the fumes rise instead of fall, at 
least at first, on account of being heated. If you think the 
fumes too heavy to rise, just put a lighted brimstone match 
under your nose and try it. 
ROBBER CLOTH. 
A robber cloth is quickly and easily made. Take a piece 
of sheeting a yard square or less, and this alone will make a 
cover to put over a hive or super that will allow no bee to 
enter. The objection is that it is easily blown off by the 
wind, and that it can not quickly be put on. To remedy this 
take two pieces of lath, each about as long as the hive, and 
lay one upon the other with one edge of the cloth between 
them. • The cloth is longer than the lath, allowing 6 inches 
or moreof the cloth to project at each end of the lath. Now 
nail the laths together with lj^-incli wire nails, clinching 
