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into a board, and attaching pieces of white comb to its 
highest point, after which the board is set in the box or 
hive instead of a frame. To remove this comb, after 
the honey is all capped over, without having the edge- 
cell broken or honey spilled over the comb, cut one 
side from its attachment, slightly rounding off the edge, 
after which return it to the bees. The bees will lick up 
the spilled honey, and slightly attach the comb with 
pure wax only ; after which the other side may be cut 
and the edge rounded off. When this edge is cleaned 
by the bees, the comb can easily be removed by cut- 
ting or breaking the slight attachment. If the edges 
were sufficiently rounded off, no honey-cell need be 
broken ; leaving the design in perfect shape, and the 
comb clean and very attractive. Initials will seldom 
be perfectly built by the bees, and should be cut from 
nice box honey, the edges rounded off, and inserted 
into the design cut in the board and returned to the 
bees for cleaning the edges, as above described. Bees 
will fill glass jars, if a piece of comb is attached to the 
top for a commencement. Honey may also be obtained 
in glass tumblers, by cutting a piece of nice white 
comb large enough to slightly crowd into the tumbler. 
To get such receptacles nicely filled with pure white 
comb and excellent honey, they should be placed upon 
the hive at the beginning of the honey harvest. 
The adjusting of honey boxes should be carefully 
