HONEY. 
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The surplus honey may be taken from my hives in a 
great variety of ways : 
(1st.) The hive may be made so long that it can be 
taken from the ends on frames; and if these ends be 
separated from the main body of the hive by movable ‘or 
permanent partitions, the purest honey will be deposited 
in them. The partitions should be kept about a quarter 
of an inch from the top and bottom, to allow the bees to 
pass freely into the ends.* 
(2d.) The surplus honey may be stored in large or 
small frames, put in an upper box or hive (see Plates III., 
V., and VII., Figs. 9, 16, and 20). Such a box,f when 
full, may, by a little smoke, be easily removed, and the 
bees driven from it. Its contents may be sold in gross, 
or by the single frame. 
In all my hives, any additional storage-room may be 
given, which the season or locality can ever require. The 
experienced bee-keeper well knows that bees will make 
much more honey in a large box, than in several small 
ones whose united capacity is the same. In small boxes, 
they cannot so well maintain their animal heat, and their 
effective force is thus often wasted at the height of 
the honey-harvest, when time is, to the last degree, 
precious. J 
* Such a hive, holding a dozen frames in tho central apartment, and six in each 
of the end ones may be cheaply made, Tho aide apartments may be rabbeted ao 
ns to receive abort frames running from the ends to tho partitions, or long ones from 
front to rear. 
t In a favorable season, I havo taken two such boxes, each holding over fifty 
pounds, from a non-swarming hive, and, in good locations, still largor returns may 
often bo realizod. Tho boxes may bo 60t over tho main hive, and, os tho bees can 
pass into them without being obliged to travel over the combs, the unusual height 
will not annoy them. 
$ I am not aware that tho attention of Apiarians has over been called to the loss 
Incurred by compelling bees to store their surplus honey in small receptacles. The 
bee-keeper cannot afford to sell honey stored In small receptucles, except at a 
considerable advance ovor its value in large boxes. Jly movable frames, tho usual 
objections to largo boxes ure removed, as houev may bo conveniently tukou from 
them for sale or vise. 
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