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HIVES. 
SURPLUS HONEY WILL CONTAIN BEE-BREAD. 
Also pollen, or bee-bread, is always stored in the 
vicinity of the young brood ; some of this will remain 
mixed with the honey, to please the palate with its ex- 
quisite flavor. The majority will probably prefer all 
surplus honey stored in pure comb, where it will 
be with proper management. 
I will here give a full description of a hive on this 
principle, as I have the description from one of its advo- 
cates, in the Dollar Newspaper, Philadelphia: called 
Cutting’s Patent Changeable Hive. 
DESCRIPTION OF CUTTING’S CHANGEABLE IIIVE. 
“The size of the changeable hive most used in this 
section, has an outside shell, made of inch boards, 
about two feet high and sixteen and a half inches 
square, with a door hung in the rear. On the inside 
are three boxes or drawers, which will hold about one 
thousand cubic inches each, and when filled with 
honey, usually weigh about thirty-five pounds, which 
is a sufficient amount of honey to winter a large 
swarm. The sides of these drawers are made of 
boards, about half an inch thick ; the tops and bot- 
toms of the lower drawers and ends of the upper 
drawers should be three-fourths of an inch, and the 
drawers should be fourteen inches high, fourteen 
inches from front to rear, and six and three-fourths 
inches wide. Two of these drawers stand side by 
side, with the third placed flatwise upon the two, 
with a free communication from one drawer to another, 
by means of thirty three-fourth inch holes on the 
