50 SUCCESSFUL BEE-KEEPING. 
will lie in and about the entrance night and day, keeping 
it open all the time, and soon cement the “ pedal” immov- 
ably fast. with their propolis. 
SURPLUS HONEY BOXES. 
When swarming is done, the honey boxes should be 
placed upon the hive. These should have a bottom with 
holes to correspond with these in the cover, or honey 
board, so as to be readily removed. Honey boxes should 
never be put on the honey board wirHovur BorroMs, nor on 
the frames without a honey board. If they are, it is difii- 
cult to remove them without injury to the combs. If 
glass sides and ends are made to the boxes, so that the 
honey can be seen, it will sell for enough more in market 
to pay the extra expense. Two boxes should be placed 
upon each hive, or swarm, six inches wide by five deep 
and twelve inches long, as represented in Fig. 19, p. 36. 
WINTHERING. 
To prevent loss of bees by starvation in winter, with 
plenty of honey on hand, is the object, in part, for which 
the quadruple hive and the winrrr passaceEs are construct- 
ed. Inasingle hive, without a passage through the combs, 
it frequently happens, that during cold, freezing weather, 
long continued, the combs outside the eluster of the bees, 
become covered with frost, the congelation of their breath, 
which they are totally unable to remove—and they will 
not go over it—and so PERISH OF HUNGER AND FALL TO THE 
BOTTOM BOARD WITH PLENTY OF STORES ALL AROUND THEM ; and 
while the bees between the ranges of comb are in pros- 
perous condition, in consequence of the greater degree of 
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