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that I have just described ; and then you will have 
the straight combs, and surplus honey in the boxes 
pure. 
GLASS BOXES PREFERRED. 
Having told how I make a hive, I will now give 
some reasons for preferring a particular kind of boxes. 
I have taken great quantities of honey to market, put 
up in every style, such as tumblers, glass jars, glass 
boxes, wooden boxes with glass ends, and boxes all 
wood. I have found the square glass boxes the most 
profitable; the honey in such appears to the best 
possible advantage, so much so, that the majority of 
purchasers prefer paying for the box at the same rate 
as ihe honey, than the wood box, and have the tare 
allowed. This rate of selling boxes always pays the 
cost, while we get nothing for the wood. Another 
advantage in this kind of boxes is, while being filled, 
the progress can be watched, and the time they are 
finished known precisely, when they should be taken 
off, as every day they remain after that, soils the purity 
of the combs. 
GLASS BOXES HOW MADE. 
Directions for malting .— Select half-inch boards of 
pine or other soft light wood, cut the length twelve 
and three-quarters inches, width six and three-eighths 
inches, dress down the thickness to three-eighths or 
less, two pieces for a box, top and bottom, in the bot- 
tom bore five holes throughout the centre to match 
with those in the top of the hive, (the pattern used 
