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, 10, and 20). Such a box,f when 
lull, 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.]; 
* Such a hive, holding a dozen frames in the control apartment, and six in each 
of tlio end ones may he cheaply made. Tho side apartments may be rabbeted so 
as to receive short frames running from tho ends to tho partitions, or long ones from 
front to rear. 
+ In a favorable season, I have taken two such boxes, each holding over fifty 
pounds, from a non-swarming hive, and, in good locations, still larger returns may 
often be realized. Tho boxes may be set over the main hive, and, as tho bees c:iu 
pass into them without being obliged to travel over the combs, the unusual height 
will uotaunoy them. 
t I am not aware that the attention of Apiarians hits ever been called to the loss 
Incurred by compelling bees to store their surplus honey in small receptacles. Tho 
bee-keeper cannot afford to sell honey stored in small receptacles, except at a 
considerable advance over its value iu lurge boxes. Jiy movable frames, the usual 
objections to large boxes are removed, as honev may be conveniently taken fVoni 
them for sale or use. 
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