Bees and BeekeepingPast & Present:The Secrets of Old Homemade Bee Smokers

摘要

In this article, we examine the intriguing details of two homemade bee smokers. In recent years, bee supply catalogs have grown thicker and heavier, from companies offering more equipment and specialty items. Catalog pages were once folded over, producing a thick (calendar) style fold as the spine of the catalog. Now bee suppliers publish catalogs by binding the pages together like a book. Also like a book, the bee supplier's contact informationappears on the binding. Remarkably, the bee supply catalog is evolving to become more like a beekeeping book.