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and are recommended as preferable to deep narrow 

 glasses. The drawings will show that they are straight 

 at the sides, flat at the top inside, with a knob outside to 

 take hold by, through which is a half-inch opening to 

 admit a ventilating tube. The larger is six inches deep, 

 twelve inches wide ; smaller, five inches deep, nine and 

 a half inches wide. 



The late Mr. J. H. Payne, of Bury, author of the 

 " Bee-keeper's Guide " introduced another glass. It has 

 a three-inch hole in the centre, the pur- 

 pose of which is to tempt bees to pro- 

 duce additional and larger stores of 

 honey. It is to be used as follows : — 

 When a bell glass is half or quite filled, 

 raise it, and place Payne's glass over the hole of the 

 stock-hive, with the filled glass on it, over the three-inch 

 hole. The bees will bring their combs through, and 

 thus Mr. Payne found that they would store more honey 

 than if the bell glass were removed and another empty 

 one put in its place. Of course, the first glass must be 

 smaller in diameter than Payne's glass, so as to rest 

 upon it. 



FLAT-TOPPED GLASS. 



This is a glass .super, to be placed on the hive in a 

 similar way to the bell glasses already alluded to. It 

 has the advantages of being straight at the sides, flat 



