BEE CULTURE. 39 
The first «shoney-boxes” were made to hold scveral combs 
about six inches square. A. G. Hill, of Indiana, conceived 
the idea of inserting «comb guides” two inches apart, and 
then sawing about half way through these boxes, between 
the “guides,” so that the retailer could, with a knife, cut 
the combs apart, without injuring the honey-combs. 
About the same time, Geo. T. Wheeler, of New York, 
invented honey-boxes for single combs, having wood tops 
and bottoms, and glass ends; and when taken off the hives 
(where full-sized, tin separators were used) the sides were 
also glassed. The bee-entrance was a ‘‘slot” in the bottoms. 
Then N. N. Betsinger, of New York, invented the honey 
box (Fig. 15 0) made by nailing 2x} inch sides to 1}x} inch 
tops and bottoms, to be used with tin separators, and 
glassed on the sides after being taken from the hives. 
These were to hold two pounds of honey. 
Then A. I. Root, of Ohio, made one-pound sections, eight 
of them, 44x4} inches, to fit a ‘wide frame” (Fig. 24) of 
the same size as the Langstroth brood-frame. These were 
of }-inch wood all around, and ‘dovetailed ;” the sides 
being 2 inches, and the tops and bottoms 1} inches wide, 
leaving room for the bees to enter between every two—to 
be used with tin separators 3} inches wide. 
After the four-piece dovetailed sections before mentioned, 
Prof. Cook used berry-box stuff bent to shape around a 
block, and nailed. Then several attempts were made to get 
the sections made in one-piece ; but that was not perfected 
until about 1880, in Watertown, Wis., when the present 
one-piece section with V-groove was perfected. 
For years these two-pound sections were the favorites for 
marketing comb honey—but they are now nearly driven 
from the market by the one-piece sections holding one 
pound of honey, and measuring 44x44 inches, outside. 
a a a 
a a 
Fie. 16.— One-Piece, One-Pound Honey Section. 
This cut shows the 44x44 one-piece section, the grooves 
being represented by a, a, a. These can be easily bent into 
the shape of a box, by hand, but that can of course be done 
much faster by machinery. (Fig. 26.) 
