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

 ones whose united capacity is the same. 



In small boxes, bees cannot so well maintain their ani- 

 mal heat ; while in finishing them, so few can work, that 

 much time is lost. The effective force of a colony is thus 

 often wasted, at the height of the honey-harvest, when time 

 is to the last degree precious to the bees. 



I am not aware that the attention of Apiarians, has ever 

 been called to the great loss necessarily incurred, by every 

 attempt to compel bees to store their surplus honey, in small 

 receptacles. By the use of my frames, the usual objections 

 to large boxes are not only entirely obviated, but the honey 

 may be removed from them even more conveniently, for sale 

 or use, than from the small ones which have hitherto been 

 regarded as best. The bee-keeper cannot afford to sell 

 honey stored in small receptacles, except at a very consider- 

 able advance over its value in large boxes. 



Persons accustomed to bees, if they use smoke, will need 

 no metallic slides, for removing their surplus honey boxes. 

 By blowing smoke into them, before they are taken off, most 

 of the bees will retreat to the main hive, and if removed, 

 early in the morning, or late in the afternoon, and placed on 

 a sheet fastened to the hive, the bees, attracted by the hum 

 of their companions, will speedily leave them, but not until 

 ihey have swallowed all that they can hold. When gorged, 

 they are very reluctant to fly, and this is the reason why they 

 are so long in leaving, when the box is carried from the 

 hive. 



It sometimes happens that there is brood in the boxes thus 

 removed, and this is a serious annoyance to the bee-keeper 

 on the common plan, whereas, when frames are used, any 

 containing brood may be returned to the hive, without at all 

 interfering with the others. Many bees will utterly refuse to 



