This useful article consists of a square top-board upon which is placed a straw-hive (E.) so as to show an open, circular space under the hive and through the square board into the bag below. I need hardly observe--that the straw-hive is no part of the fumigator, but is here represented as standing upon it in order to exemplify its use. The top-board is of inch-deal, and is nineteen or twenty inches square. A round piece is cut out of its centre of not more than thirteen inches in diameter--that being something near to, or perhaps rather more than, the inside-diameter of a common hive--so that a hive will stand upon the wooden circumference. 'e of the part left, without there being any ledge inside, that is--any part so enclosed by the hive as to catch and detail the falling Becs. From the upper-edge of this circle is suspended a bag, a yard in length, made of glazed calico, the bottom-part of which draws round the rim of a shallow, funnel-shaped tin Bee-receiver, which Bee-receiver is about ten inches across at the top, and its lower-part, or neck (D. or F.) is three inches and a half in length, and its throat (if I may so term it) is nearly three inches in width. To fit this neck, which is thickly perforated for the purpose of admitting fresh air, when fresh air may be required, is a close lid, just like that of a common, tin canister, to hold up the fumigated Bees, and also to stop the ventilation when not wanted.* C. is the fumigating lamp with a perforated top through which the fune ascends, and is made conical, so that a fumigated Bee in its fall cannot restupon it, and be thereby scorched orinjured, as would inevitably be the case were this top flat. The tie (B.) closes the bag and keeps every Bee above until the lamp and every thing below be adjusted, and it is _then_ to be untied. The fumigator is here represented as standing upon three legs made fast to the top-board by small bolts, as at A.; but it is quite as convenient in practice, and more portable, if, instead of these legs, it be made like a common scale with a cord from each corner, which may be gathered into a small iron-hook, and thereby suspended from the branch of a tree, or from any other convenient place, when used. The lower part of the bag is represented as being transparent, but that is done purposely to show how the lamp is placed inside when prepared for operation.*By persons inexperienced in such matters it may be thought to be an extraordinary feat to unite the Bees of one hive with those of another--to bind, as it were, the legs and wings, and pro tempore, to render useless the sting of every individual Bee, until such union be effected. Nothing, however, is more easy; nor is any part of apiarian practice attended with more pleasing consequences to the operator, or with more important and beneficial ones to the Bees themselves. When in a state of temporary insensibility from the fume made to ascend through the perforated tin (C.) into their hive, these beautiful insects are perfectly manageable,--perfectly harmless. This intoxicating fune is caused by introducing into the fumigating lamp a piece of ignited vegetable substance, called puck, puckball, or frog-cheese, or, most commonly, _fuzzball._ It is a species of fungus, or mushroom, and is plentiful enough in the autumn in rank pastures and in rich edishes. Shepherds, milk-maids, or country school-boys, are well acquainted with them,--know very well where to find them,--and for a mere trifle will easily pick up as many of them as will supply the ingenious one here described; and may be had by application to Mr. Nut.--Ed.