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ripping first into pieces one inch square then ripping 
them diagonally across from corner to corner. It will 
take eight of these bars to fill up the top leaving one- 
fourth inch space between them for the bees to pass 
from one section to the other. The bars are fastened 
in their place by driving two and one-half inch sprigs 
in each end, these bars will be cut twelve inches long 
placed inside the hive, at the top with the end to the 
glass and driving llie sprigs through the hive in the 
end of the bars. You will then take your plane and 
dress off the top of the bars so your lid will fit down 
tight on them, make a lid fifteen inches square of threo 
fourth inch board, plain it bevel and fasten down on the 
top by driving in eight screws. It will not do to nail 
the lid down as you will want to take it off some times. 
You will need one lid for two sections. 
You will now make your door to fit over the glass. 
Guage your door in one and one-half inches take it off 
one-fourth of an inch with your plane leaving it high in 
the middle. This will make it look like panel work.— 
Hang with small hinges and your section is ready foi 
use except, that you will need an aperture cut across the 
top of your lid six inches long by three-fourths wide 
to let your bees pass up in the cap or honey box. 
You will take your surplus liouey by placing a small 
box over the aperture cut in the lid of your top section, 
that will hold from fifteen to twenty pounds of honey, 
This you may remove and empty as often as your bees 
fill it, after they have filled the two large sections. The 
comb and liouey in the two large sections will belong 
to the bees for their winter store, and to raise their 
young brood. 
SYSTEM OP DIVIDING WHEN YOUR TWO 
SECTIONS ARE PULL OF COMBS AND BEES. 
The 15th of March is the time to move the bees from 
their winter quarters, for we do not suppose that any 
bee master iu this enlightened age will leave his bees 
to winter on the stand without any protection. Then we 
