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BEF, PASTURAGE AND PRODUCTS. 
SURPLUS IIONEY STORED IN BOXES. 
Those having bees in common hives, and all who wish their 
surplus honey stored in boxes, will obtain the greatest amount 
and avoid many disappointments by attending to the following 
conditions : 
1st. The boxes should be tight and large, but not over four 
or five inches high, and protected from the changes of the 
weather by an outer cap. 
2d. The bees should be induced to commence in them by 
attaching pieces of clean empty comb to the under side of tho 
top, and placing the boxes directly over the breeding apart- 
ment, with large openings under each box to admit the bees. 
3d. Early in the season select a few populous stocks, giving 
a box to each, and when the bees have commenced in them, givi 
boxes to the next strongest, being careful not to give too mud 
room till a start has been made. 
4th. Keep tho hives cool by shading from the sun, and if thf 
bees cluster outside, when flowers are plenty, ventilate by en- 
larging the entrances and giving more room in the boxes i! 
needed. 
After a populous stock has nearly filled its boxes it will ofter 
take long enough time to finish them, to have half filled empty 
ones, besides the difficulty so often experienced in getting tin 
bees to commence in the boxes after those first filled are removed, 
which objections are both overcome in the American hive, tie 
scribed in the chapter on hives. 
