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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 desii-ed. 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. 



