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may be sent in it to market more safely than in any other 

 way, if the following directions are closely adhered to : 

 Make the box of seven-eighths stuff; fasten with small nails, 

 each frame to the rabbets, letting the nails project so that 

 they may easily be drawn ; between the bottom slats of the 

 frames, slightly glue two small pieces of wood, to prevent 

 the frames from swaying in the least, when the box is han- 

 dled. Screw on a top to the box not less than three-fourths 

 of an inch thick, and a bottom of the same thickness, with 

 holes similar in size and number to those on the spare honey- 

 board. The back of this box should have glass like the 

 main hive, so that the Apiarian can see when it is full. Be- 

 fore putting in the frames, pour into the corners of the box 

 a melted mixture, one-third bees-wax, and two-thirds rosin ; 

 by a little dexterity, the box may be held so that this mixture 

 will run into all the corners, cooling as it runs, and making 

 them perfectly honey-tight. Pour the same mixture through 

 one of the holes, after screwing on the top and bottom, so 

 as to make them tight. The box thus prepared, will hold only 

 ten large frames, or sixteen small ones, as store combs 

 should be further apart than those intended for brood, and it 

 should be set on the hive in the place of the spare honey-board. 

 The honey may be sold by the box, or the frames may be 

 conveniently retailed, to accommodate small purchasers. 



In a favorable season, I have taken two such boxes, hold- 

 ing over one hundred pounds, from a single non-swarming 

 hive ; and in very good locations, still larger returns may be 

 realized. Two suck 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. 

 The plan of all my hives is such as to allow any addition of 

 top room, which the season or locality may ever require, 

 The experienced bee-keeper well knows, that a colony will 

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