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HIVES AND BOXES. 



allow the glass to be taken from the sides of the box and 

 returned, even when the box is filled with honey. Glass 

 for the sides is 5 X 6 inches. If desired to use only top 

 boxes, both end-glasses may be alike, and cut 4x5 inches. 

 In practice, it will be found that boxes to be used at 

 sides and top, should be exactly alike, as at times it be- 

 comes necessary to place those that are partly filled at the 

 sides, on the top to be finished, and vice versa ; hence 

 all boxes should have both end and bottom entrance. 

 For this purpose, let one end-glass be cut 3x5 in., 

 and secured at top and bottom with glue. This leaves 

 a space of over '/, in. at each side, for an entrance, when 



Fig. 41a. — TWO-COMB BOX. 



Fig. 416.— HONEY BOARD. 



placed at the sides of the combs, and permits a passage 

 from box to box, when these ends are placed together on 

 the top. Guides of clean white comb are indispensable. 

 Holes should be made for nails to prevent splitting. 

 (Fig 41, a.) 



BLOCK FOR SETTING UP BOXES. 



For this, use 1-inch basswood lumber. It is a box 5 

 in. high and '/, in. smaller each way inside, than the out- 

 side measure of the honey-box. Before nailing the bot- 

 tom on the block, saw V, in. from each inside corner out- 

 wardly, on an exact mitre. This is to receive the tins 

 that are in the posts. Shght steel-wire springs should 

 be used to hold each post in position until nailed. On the 

 upper edge of each of the four sides, nail a narrow, thin 

 strip '/j in. from the inside edge, to hold the bottom of the 



