. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 82 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [September 1, 1876. be delighted; whereupon he made me put on a small head-dress, with a glass let into it to enable the encased 'knight' to see better, and with a small hole near the mouth part, the use of which I will explain directly. After putting on a similar dress himself, he lit a piece of specially-prepared fumigating material about the thickness of a man's finger and somewhat longer, and put it into the frame shown in fig. 5. This frame consists of a trough of tin the required size; w, w, two wires acro
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 82 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [September 1, 1876. be delighted; whereupon he made me put on a small head-dress, with a glass let into it to enable the encased 'knight' to see better, and with a small hole near the mouth part, the use of which I will explain directly. After putting on a similar dress himself, he lit a piece of specially-prepared fumigating material about the thickness of a man's finger and somewhat longer, and put it into the frame shown in fig. 5. This frame consists of a trough of tin the required size; w, w, two wires across it to prevent the stick of fumigation from falling out; l is the opening in the bottom of the trough through which the smoke is blown, and h the handle. The bee-master now lighted the fumigator, and having passed a tube through the hole in the dress above mentioned into his mouth, blew some smoke into the hive for a few seconds. He next wheeled up a small cart, and lifting the hive from its floor-board, he placed it bottom upwards on the cart and removed it to an open shed close by. ' Nun!' said he, ' when I want to take out a bar-frame, I remove the pegs from it, as well as from the bar-frame next it on either side. I then push one slightly to the right, the other slightly to the left, and the frame in question may then be removed with the greatest ease and without any jarring, which is particularly to be avoided in all bee manipulations.' After showing me two or three bar-frames from different parts of the hive, he re- placed the pegs and wheeled it back to its floor- board. The cart was of such a width that the hive just fitted between the two sides, which kept it steady, and the hive when in it was of the right height from the ground to enable the bee-master to operate without sto6ping; one of the sides terminated in a shelf, on which to lay the pegs, a knife, the fumigator, &c. ' Do you let your hives swarm naturally ?' I asked. ' If they will do so sufficiently ear
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