HIVES AND BOXES. 117 
the drainage, and any ono can easily imagine its sticky, 
unattractive condition. A customer will often take a 
number of smaller boxes, in spite of the extra glass, 
rather than ono large one, in order to avoid the leakage 
caused by removing one comb at a time, as wanted. 
It also is oven to the very serious objection of attract- 
ing marauding bees, as the season of the year precludes 
their being otherwise busy. I have known grocers to be 
so seriously annoyed in this way as to be obliged to close 
their stores. It is very difficult to sell honey to parties 
who have handled it in such an undesirable shape. 
This is a matter of importance. I am not speaking 
from limited knowledge, but from extensive observation. 
We must look well to the causes that operate against the 
sale of honey. 
TWO-COMB BOXES. 
Very many forms of two-comb boxes have been in use 
for a long time, with more or less desirable features. I 
shall describe but one, which recent experience commends 
as exceedingly practicable. In describing this box, I shall 
consider the size to be used on the Quinby hive, and 
weighing 5 lbs. when filled. 
The top and bottom are made of pine,‘/, in. thick,6’/, in. 
long, by 4'/, in. wide. These are designed to set at right 
angles to the frames, both at top and sides. 
Three 1'/, in. holes are made in the bottom. 
The posts at each corner are °/, in. square, 
and 5 in. high. This constitutes the entire 
wood-work of the box. When nailed to- 
gether, the outside cf the posts should stand 
Fig. 40. ‘°/, in. in from the corner, so that when 
tin For cor- packed closely together, there will be less 
NER Posts. danger of breakage. The glass is held in place 
by tins, driven diagonally through the center of the post, 
and clinched, (fig. 40). It will be seen that these tins 
