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and risen to the top of the kettle. It should then be treated 

 according to previous directions. Very old hrooil combs 

 are not worth the trouble necessary to render out the wax ; 

 and are of no value except to be burned. 



The surplus honey may be taken from the bees, in my 

 hives, in a great variety of ways. (1st.) The hive may be 

 made so long that the spare honey can be taken from the 

 ends, on frames; and if these ends are separated by dividers 

 or permanent partitions, from the main body of the hive, 

 the purest honey will be deposited in them. The partitions 

 should be kept about one quarter of an inch from the top 

 and bottom, to allow the bees to pass freely into the ends ; 

 in winter these side apartments should be filled with straw. 



A hive thus constructed, holding one dozen frames in the 

 central apartment, and six in each of the end ones, will be 

 found very cheap, and easy of construction. The side / 

 apartments may be rabbeted so as to receive short frames 

 running from the ends to the partitions, or long ones from 

 front to rear. The cover to this hive should be made of two 

 thicknesses of boards, to protect the bees ; and to prevent 

 warping, the under boards should be so nailed, that the 

 grain of the wood will run in a different direction from that 

 of the upper ones. 



(2d.) The surplus honey may be taken on frames inserted 

 into a box of the same capacity with the main hive ; it 

 should have a partition in the centre, from front to rear, 

 kept three-eighths of an inch from the top and bottom of the 

 hive, to allow the bees to pass from one division to the other. 

 The rabbets should be made so as to receive large frames, 

 like those below, or two sets of short ones running from each 

 end of the box to the partition. 



When such a box is full, it may easily be removed and 

 the bees driven from it with a little smoke, and the honey 



