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Tobacco Smoke Preferred To Slides

Categories: PUTTING ON AND TAKING OFF BOXES.
Bee Keeping: Mysteries Of Bee-keeping Explained

When boxes are to be taken off, if a slide of tin, zinc, &c., is used

to close the holes, some of the bees are apt to be crushed, others will

find themselves minus a head, leg, or abdomen, and all of them be

irritable for several days. A little tobacco smoke is preferable, as it

keeps all quiet. Just raise the box to be taken off sufficient to puff

under it some smoke, and the bees will leave the vicinity of the holes

in an instant; the box can then be removed, and another put on if

necessary, without exciting their anger in the least.



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