118 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 5x6 inches. If desired to use only top 
boxes, both end-glasses may be alike, and cut 45 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 2X5 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. 41b.—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 °/, in. from each inside corner out- 
wardly, on an exact mitre. This is to receive the tins 
that are in the posts. Slight 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 ‘/, in. from the inside edge, to hold the bottom of the 
