Apparatus for Comb-Honey. 203 
OBSERVATORY HIVE. 
To study bees while they are at work, requires a hive 
so constructed that we can look in upon all the bees of the 
hive at pleasure. For this purpose, I have used a small 
Langstroth hive (Fig. 74), containing one frame. Glass 
is used each side of the frame and this is shaded by doors, 
hung on hinges. We are able to look at the bees or make 
all dark inside at pleasure. To prevent the hive from 
becoming too crowded, we must every twenty-three or 
twenty-four days shake the bees from the frame and replace 
the latter with another frame, which shall contain no brood. 
From such a hive in my study window, I have received 
much pleasure and information. 
APPARATUS FOR PROCURING COMB-HONEY, 
Although I feel sure that extracted honey will grow 
more and more in favor, yet it will never supersede the 
beautiful comb, which, from its exquisite flavor and attract- 
ive appearance has always been, and always will be, admired 
and desired. So, no hive is complete without its arrange- 
ment of section frames and crates, all constructed with the 
view of securing this delectable comb-honey in the form that 
will be most tempting to the eye and palate. 
SURPLUS COMB-HONEY IN SECTIONS. 
Honey in several-pound boxes is no longer marketable, 
and is now almost wholly replaced by comb honey in sec- 
tions. In fact there is no apparatus for securing comb-honey 
that promises so well as these sections. That they are just 
the thing to enable-us to tickle the market is shown by 
their rapid growth in popular favor. Some years ago I 
predicted, at one of our State conventions, that they would 
soon replace boxes and was laughed at. Nearly all who 
then laughed, now use these sections. They are cheap, 
and with their use we can get more honey, and in a form 
that will make it irresistible. 
