380 HONEY. 



ing on the sides, and fastened with small tacks, or glazier's 

 points, under the projecting top and bottom. A hole should 

 be made in the bottom, of the same size with those on the 

 spare honey>^oard, and three of my guides, five inches long, 

 should be fastened to the top, so that the combs will be 

 built by the bees, parallel with the glass ends. Such a box 

 will hold three store combs, and by removing one glass, a 

 comb may be cut out, without disturbing the others, and the 

 glass fastened again in its place. The convenience of such 

 a box will at once be obvious, to those who have had the 

 usual vexatious experience with honey-boxes of the common 

 form. Such a box will contain between four and five pounds 

 of honey. The honey-board will receive nine boxes, and 

 if a hole is made in their tops, as well as bottoms, another 

 box may be set on each, and thus eighteen boxes be put upon 

 the hive. By removing these as fast as they are filled, am- 

 ple accommodation may be given to a non-swarming colony. 

 A drawing of this box will be given among the other imple- 

 ^ments used in the Apiary. -^ 



If the bee-master has no spare comb, to put as a pattern 

 into his honey-boxes, unless he can use my guides for comb- 

 building, he will find that the bees often build quite irregu- 

 larly ; and that such crook'ed work, requires a great increase 

 of time for its completion. In boxes of every kind, the 

 work will be begun earlier, and carried forward more rapidly, 

 if all the crevices are made air tight, by the melted mixture, 

 before the boxes are given to the bees. 



Boxes thus prepared, will not only spare the bees the severe 

 labor of gathering and applying the propolis, but when their 

 entrance is closed with tins of the same form that shut the 

 holes in the spare honey-board, and then covered with the 

 melted mixture, the honey may be transported to a great 

 distance without any danger of leakage, even if the combs 



