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into the honey receptacles, as soon as the lower chamber is 
filled they will pass up and store their honey where it is not 
likely the queen will go to lay her eggs, and consequently no 
bee-bread be deposited. The boxes in which the surplus 
honey is deposited are called honey boxes. For convenience 
the holes in the honey boxes and those in the top of 
the hive should correspond. It would be desirable to have 
all kinds of hives and honey boxes throughout the country 
alike in this respect ; so that any honey box would lit on any 
hive. By purchase and otherwise they are becoming con- 
stantly mixed, besides persons often wish to purchase honey 
boxes when they do not want hives. To supply this demand 
carpenters could alwayS keep boxes on hand. Perhaps as 
good a plan as has been devised for taking surplus honey is 
the following : 
TO MAKE THE UOLES IN THE TOP OP THE UIVES 
Draw four lines on it parallel with the four edges, four 
inches in ; where these lines cross bore holes witlf an inch 
or inch and a half bit ; if two one-fourth inch strips were cut 
out from hole to hole across the direction the combs run, the 
bees could pass up freely from between any two combs’ and 
save much labor in hunting the place to pass up. 
TO MAKE THE BOXES, 
Use 10x12 glass out through the middle both ways ; for the 
top and bottom use boards one-fourth inch thick by six and 
one-quarter inches square. Four corner posts five-eighti 
square and five inches long; drive a brad or small Tath 
nail through the corners of the boards into the ends of 
the posts; set the posts one-eighth of an inch in from 
the edges of the boards. You now have a frame ready to 
receive four lights of 5x6 glass; to hold them in place use 
triangular pieces of tin, such as are used by glaziers in tack- 
ing glass in windows, only make them one and one-fourth 
inches long and wedge shaped. Split the head end of it one- 
fourth of an inch ; make a hole diagonally through the post 
from the outer corner about mid-length of it with a pointed 
blade, to receive the tin which is run through and clinched. 
When the glass is laid on, one side of the head of the tin can 
be turned one way and the other the opposite way to hold the 
