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HONEY PRODUCTION. 



in cool weather and cannot ventilate so readily in hot weather. 

 In the exceedingly hot season of 1878, the colonies that were 

 provided with glass boxes yielded on an average, less than 

 one-fourth of the average yielded by others. 



The bees have another important and natural objection to 

 the small receptacles, mentioned by a noted Apiarist, as will 

 be seen farther (741). Practically, there is more labo^' for 

 the bees in small receptacles, as the joints and corners of the 

 combs require more time and more wax. 



721. But to produce salable comb honey, we have no 



Fig. 187. 



FOLDED SECTIONS. 



choice. We must produce it in a small receptacle. The Adair 

 section boxes, which we used as early as 1868, marked the 

 first progressive step, so far as we know. 



These sections forming a case by the overlapping of their 

 top and bottom bars, and furnished with glass at each end. 

 were much admired, and w^e sold several tons of honey, in 

 this shape, in St. Louis, at the now fabulous prices of from 

 25 to 28 cents per pound. 



722. But the one pound sections, as now made, have been 

 universally adopted of late years. 



