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VALUE OF GOOD COMB FOR SURPLUS BOXES. 
Few persons are aware of the great value of pieces 
of comb to put into surplus boxes. Bees often refuse 
to go into boxes, when if some pieces of comb were 
attached to the top of the box, then they would enter 
the box in twenty minutes, and go to work. Very nice 
pieces of comb for this purpose can be had by letting 
the bees build some comb on the bottom of the frames, 
in the space between them, and the bottom of hive. 
These should be trimmed off a number of times during 
the season, and put in the surplus boxes. All pieces of 
good comb during the year ought to be saved for this 
purpose. The whiter the better. To put them in with, 
take some bee-comb and put it upon an earthen platter, 
or pie tin, melt it, and at the same time lay your pieecs 
of comb on a board where you cut "them off straight 
with a sharp knife ; then by dipping the ends quickly 
in the melted wax, and by having the bottom of the 
boxes off, and inverting the box, the comb can be easily 
stuck fast by placing it against the top of the box. 
One or two pieces in a box will do, but five or six would 
be better, letting them reach down as near the bottom 
of the boxes as possible, although a narrow strip will 
answer, always inserting them crosswise of the box. 
WIXTERIXG BEES 1ST THE EASTEKV STATES. 
Here is one of the most important points in bee- 
keeping ; yet it is sadly neglected. But few bee-keep- 
ers give much attention to their bees in summer, and 
fewer still ever look to, or give them any extra protec- 
tion in winter, and the few that do differ so much / in 
their mode of arrangements, that it is difficult to har- 
monize enough of their statements or experiments, to 
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