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The surplus honey may be taken from my hives in a 

 great variety of ways : 



(1st.) The hive may be made so long that it can be 

 taken from the ends on frames; and if these ends be 

 separated from the main body of the hive by movable or 

 permanent partitions, the purest honey vriU be deposited 

 in them. The partitions should be kept about a quarter 

 of an inch from the top and bottom, to allow the bees to 

 pass freely into the ends.* 



(2d.) The surplus honey may be stored in large or 

 small frames, put in an upper box or hive (see Plates III., 

 v., and VII., Figs. 9, 16, and 20). Such a box,f when 

 full, may, by a little smoke, be easily removed, and the 

 bees driven from it. Its contents may be sold in gross, 

 or by the single frame. 



In all my hives, any additional storage-room may be 

 given, which the season or locality can ever require. The 

 experienced bee-keeper well knows that bees will make 

 much more honey in a large box, than m several small 

 ones whose united capacity is the same. In small boxes, 

 they cannot so well maintain their animal heat, and their 

 effective force is thus often wasted at the height of 

 the honey-harvest, when time is, to the last degree, 

 precious.J 



* Sach a hive, holding a dozen frames in tte central apartment, and six in each 

 of the end ones may he cheaply made. The side apartments may he rabheted so 

 as to receive short frames running from the ends to the partitions, or long ones from 

 front to rear. 



t In a favorable season, I have taken two such boxes, each holding over fifty 

 pounds, from a non-swarming hive, and, in good locations, still larger returns may 

 often be realized. The boxes may be set over the main hive, and, as the bees can 

 pass into them without being obliged to travel over the combs, the unusual height 

 will not annoy them. 



$ I am not aware that the attention of Apiarians has ever been called to the loss 

 incurred by compelling bees to store their surplus honey in small receptacles. The 

 bee-keeper cannot aiford to sell honey stored In small receptacles, except at a 

 considerable advance over its value in large boxes. By movable IVames, the nsuol 

 objections to large boxes are removed, m honev may be conveniently taken from 

 them for sale or use. 



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