. The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary. Bee culture. SMOKE AND SMOKERS. 229 SMOKE AND SMOKERS. as soon be stung as to be smoked. Another is, that bees frequently fall into the kettle ; and the sight of one heavily laden little fel- low writhing in death agonies on the burn- ing embers would be enough of a lesson for me. At one time a queen fell into
. The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary. Bee culture. SMOKE AND SMOKERS. 229 SMOKE AND SMOKERS. as soon be stung as to be smoked. Another is, that bees frequently fall into the kettle ; and the sight of one heavily laden little fel- low writhing in death agonies on the burn- ing embers would be enough of a lesson for me. At one time a queen fell into our ket- tle, and was only by rare good luck rescued. To prevent such mishaps I thought of a wire-cloth cover for the kettle, and as I had been using with good satisfaction a small saucepan with a handle, in place of a kettle, it did not take very long to decide that a common corn-popper was just about what was wanted. CORN-POPPER SMOKER. This, when tried, proved to be in many respects very convenient, for it could easily be started burning briskly by whirling the whole about the head, like a torch, and the ashes fell out of themselves. For awhile we thought we should want nothing better. The difficulty, however, with this was, that it would often give too much smoke: it smoked the eyes, and it burned so rapidly that it was quite a task to provide fuel. It is true, that it never annoyed us by going out as did the bellows smokers, but, on the other hand, it did not offer the same facil- ities for throwing a jet of smoke down into the hive, or into any particular corner. With all the good points of the corn-popper, it was finally laid aside for the Quinby smo- ker again, even if it did try our patience sorely by going out whenever it was allowed to tumble over, and many times when it did not tumble over at all. The Bingham smo- ker came a little nearer to the kettle and corn-popper, in having a much larger recep- tacle for the fuel; and as one of the valves that Quinby used is d
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