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fourths of an inch square, nailed around on the outside, 

 one inch below the top of the hive. 



BEST SHRPLnS HONEY BOXES. 



Having told how to make the hive, I will give some 

 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 

 boxes with glass ends, and boxes all wood, and have 

 found the square glass boxes to be the most profitable. 

 The honey in these appears to very good advantage, so 

 much so that the majority of purchasers prefer to pay for 

 the box at the same rate as the honey, to taking the wood 

 and having the tare allowed. This rate of selling boxes 

 always pays the cost, while we get nothing for the woodr 

 en ones. Another advantage in this kind of boxes is that 

 the progress can be watched, and the boxes removed as 

 soon as filled, thus preserving the purity of the combs. 



DIKECTIOlsS FOE MAKENG THE HONET BOXES. 



Select thin boards of pine or other soft Ught wood, 

 dress down to one-fourth of an inch thick, cut the pieces 

 for the top and bottom of the box, twelve and three quar- 

 ter inches long, and six and three-eighths wide. Bore a 

 row of holes in the center of the bottom. If the top of 

 the hive is a board with holes through, make those in the 

 box to match. Next get out the corner posts, five-eighths 

 of an inch square, and five inches in length. For receiving 

 the glass, cut with a thick saw a channel lengthwise on two 

 sides, one-fOurth of an inch deep, and one-eighth inch 

 from the corner. A small lath nail through each corner 

 of the bottom into the posts will hold them. It is now 

 ready for the glass. Get 10x12, cut them through the 

 centre, the longest way for the sides, and again the other 

 way, five and five-eighths long, for the ends. These can 



