26 HIVES. 



SUKPLDS HONEY WILL CONTAIN BEE-BREaO. 



Also pollen, or bee-bread, is always stored in the 

 vicinity of the young brood ; some of this will remain 

 mixed with the honey, to please the palate with its ex- 

 quisite flavor. The majority will probably prefer all 

 surplus honey stored in pure comb, where it will 

 be with proper management. 



I will here give a full description of a hive on this 

 principle, as I have the description from one of its advo- 

 cates, in the Dollar Newspaper, Philadelphia: called 

 Cutting's Patent Changeable Hive. 



DESCEIPTION OF CUTTINg's CHANGEABLE HIVE. 



"The size of the changeable hive most used in this 

 section, has an outside shell, made of inch boards, 

 about two feet high and sixteen and a half inches 

 square, with a door hung in the rear. On the inside 

 are three boxes or drawers, which will hold about one 

 thousand cubic inches each, and when filled with 

 honey, usually weigh about thirty-five pounds, which 

 is a sufficient amount of honey to winter a large 

 swarm. The sides of these drawers are made of 

 boards, about half an inch thick; the tops and bot- 

 toms of the lower drawers and ends of the upper 

 drawers should be three-fourths of an inch, and the 

 drawers should be fourteen inches high, fourteen 

 inches from front to rear, and ^x and three-fourths 

 inches wide. Two of these drawers stand side by 

 side, with the third placed flatwise upon the two, 

 with a free communication from one drawer to another, 

 by means of thirty- three-fourth inch holes on the 



