410 HONEY PRODUCTION. 
720. We have not the space to describe the different 
evolutions, through which the production of comb honey 
has passed since box-hive times ; production in large frames, 
in glass boxes, in tumblers, etc. 
Honey in large frames does not sell well, and cannot be 
safely transported. Were it not for this, its production in 
this way would be advisable. The experienced bee-keeper 
well knows that bees will make more honey in a large box, 
than in several smal] ones whose united capacity is the 
same. In small boxes, they cannot so well maintain their 
animal heat in cool weather and cannot ventilate so readily 
in hot weather.* 
The bees have another important and natural objection 
to the small receptacles, mentioned by a noted Apiarist, as 
will be seen farther (741). Practically, there is more 
labor for the bees in small receptacles, as the joints and 
corners of the combs require more time and more wax. 
721. But to produce salable comb honey, we have no 
choice. We must produce it in as small a receptacle as 
possible. The Adair section boxes, which we used as early 
as 1868, marked the first progressive step, so far as we 
know. 
These sections forming a case by the overlapping of their 
top and bottom bars, and furnished with glass at each end, 
were much admired, and we sold several tons of honey, in 
this shape, in St. Louis, at the now fabulous prices of from 
25 to 28 cents per pound. 
722. But the one and two pound sections, as now made, 
have been universally adopted of late years. 
The one pound sections sell best, but, at the difference o¢ 
only one cent per pound, we would prefer to use the two 
pound sections. 
*In the exceedingly hot season of 1878, the colonies that were provided with 
glass boxes yielded on an average, less than one-fourth of the average yielded 
by others. 
