FITTINGS AND APPARATUS. 



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sides, flat at the top inside, with a knob above to take 

 hold by, through whic?i is a half-inch opening to admit 

 a ventilating tube. The larger, to contain perhaps 

 twenty pounds, is six inches deep and thirteen inches 

 wide ; the smaller, five inches deep and nine and a half 

 inches wide. 



The late Mr. J. H. Payne, of Bury St. Edmunds, 

 author of the " Bee-keeper's Guide," introduced another 

 glass, called "Payne's Glass" accordingly. 

 It has a three-inch hole in the centre, the 

 purpose of which is to tempt bees to pro- 

 duce additional and larger stores of 

 honey. It is to be used as follows : When a bell glass 

 (which must be smaller in diameter than Payne's) is 

 half or quite filled, raise it, and place Payne's glass over 

 the hole of the stock hive, with the filled glass on it, 

 over the three-inch hole. The bees will bring their 

 combs through, and thus Mr. Payne found that they 

 would store more honey than if the bell glass were 

 removed and another empty one put in its place. 

 The " Flat- topped Glass " is a super to be placed on 

 the hive in a similar way to the bell 

 glasses already alluded to. It has the 

 advantages of being straight at the 

 sides, flat 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 figure forms a 



