. The honey bee: a manual of instruction in apiculture. so beneficial that there might well be a return to this valua-ble feature, which was part of the original Laugstroth hive. Great accuracy of parts must be insisted upon in hives and because covers and top stories should be made to fit interchange-ably, and because the bees carry out their own work with great precision, so that ease in manipulation of combs can only be secured bynice adjustment. Hives cut by machinery are therefore greatly to bepreferred, and though most of those kept in stock by apiarian manu-facturers do not
. The honey bee: a manual of instruction in apiculture. so beneficial that there might well be a return to this valua-ble feature, which was part of the original Laugstroth hive. Great accuracy of parts must be insisted upon in hives and because covers and top stories should be made to fit interchange-ably, and because the bees carry out their own work with great precision, so that ease in manipulation of combs can only be secured bynice adjustment. Hives cut by machinery are therefore greatly to bepreferred, and though most of those kept in stock by apiarian manu-facturers do not include in their construction all of the features men-tioned above, they still answer in most particulars the requirementsof bee life, aud, if proper protection for the winter be afforded, are veryserviceable. BMOKERS. ~No well-appointed apiary in these days is without one or more beesmokers. The professional bee keeper who has once used a bellowssmoker would as soon think of dispensing with this implement as a 48 MANUAL OF skillful cook would be disposed to go back from the modern cooking range to the old-fashioned fireplace. For hundreds of years smoke has been used to quell and even stupefy bees, and various forms of bee smokers have long been used; but the modern bellows form, so far superior to the old clumsy implements which oftentimes required both hands of the operator, or to be held between the teeth, is purely an American invention. Mr. M. Quinby, one of the pioneers in improved methods in apiculture in America, was the inventor of the bellows smoker having the fire box at the side of the bellows so arranged as to ena- V . / ble the operator to work it with / one hand, and when not in use to w - ? stand it upright and secure a draft which would keep the fire going. Certain improvements on the original Quinby smoker have been made without changing the general form of the implement, one of the most effective and durable of these improved make
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