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SMOKE AND SMOKERS 
Straw keeps the hives cool in summer and warm in winter. 
sections are sometimes used. The making 
of straw skeps for c-ottagers is quite a little 
business of itself—requiring a certain de¬ 
gree of skill and industry. _ 
Straw skeps are not used in this country; 
and if it were not for the familiar pic¬ 
tures of “ye olden times” Americans would 
know but little about them. See Box 
Hives. 
SMARTWEED. — See Heartsease. 
SMOKE AND SMOKERS.— One can 
drive cattle and horses, and, to some ex¬ 
tent, even pigs, with a whip; but one who 
tries to control cross bees without smoke 
will find to his sorrow that all the rest of 
the animal kingdom are mild in compari¬ 
son, especially so far as stubbornness and 
Dutch swarm specialists inspecting bargains at the bee market in Holland. 
