GUIDE-COMB FOR GLASSES. 



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at top, and without a knob; so that when filled it 

 may be brought on to the breakfast 

 table, inverted, on a plate. The glass 

 lid shown in the engraving forms a 

 cover, and fits over outside, so as not 

 to interfere with the combs within. 

 These fiat-top glasses, like those with a 

 knob, have a hole through which a zinc 

 ventilating tube is inserted. Dimensions, six and three- 

 quarter inches wide, five inches high. 



GUIDE-COMB FOR GLASSES. 



In some of our previous allusions to the best mode of 

 inducing bees to commence working in glasses, we have 

 recommended attaching guide-comb. We will now 

 more particularly explain how this attraction can be best 

 applied. We have already shown how bees may be 

 induced to make use of guide-combs fixed to bars, and 

 the same principle is applicable to glasses. These may 

 be filled, with great regularity, by adopting the follow- 

 ing directions, which, we believe, have never before 

 appeared in print : — 



Procure a piece of clean new empty worker honey- 

 comb, which has not had honey in it (because honey will 

 prevent adhesion to the glass) ; cut it into pieces of about 

 ihree-quarters of an inch square. Gently warm the 

 exterior of the glass (this we find is best done by hold- 



