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that I have just described ; and then you will have 

 the straight combs, and surplus honey in the boxes 

 pure. 



QLASS BOXES PREFERRED. 



Having told how I make a hive, I will now give 

 ^me reasons for preferring a particular kind of boxes. 

 I have taken great quantities of honey to market, put 

 up in every style, such as tumblers, glass jars, glass 

 boxes, wooden boxps with glass ends, and boxes all 

 wood. I have found the square glass boxes thc^ most 

 profitable ; the honey in such appears to the best 

 possible advantage, so much so, that the majority of 

 purchasers prefer paying for the box at the same rate 

 as the honey, than the wood box, and have the tare 

 . allowed. This rate of selling boxes always pays the 

 cost, while we get nothing for the wood. Another 

 advantage in this kind of Isoxes is, while being filled, 

 the progress can be watched, and the time they ar^ 

 finished known precisely, when they should be taken 

 off, as every day they remain after that, soils the purity 

 of the combs. , 



GLASS BOXES HOW MADE. 



Directions for making. — Select half-inch boards of 

 pine or other soft light wood, cut the length twelve 

 and three-quarters inches, width six and three-eighths 

 inches, dress down the thickness to three-eighths or 

 less, two pieces for a box, top and bottom, in the bot- 

 tom bore five holes throughout the centre to match 

 with those in the top of the hive, (the pattern used 



