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place the hive properly in the situation where the stock is 
intended permanently to remain; this should not be 
delayed longer than the evening of the same day. 
Varying from fifteen to twenty-five days after the 
swarm is hived, the bees will have filled the stock hive 
with comb, and in a great measure with honey; but as 
this portion of the hive is intended for the breeding of the 
bees, no part of the store should be removed therefrom. 
As soon as the hive is found to be full of comb, the holes 
on the top may be opened, and a glass or glasses placed 
over the same, with the perforated tubes in them; or, if 
one large glass should be preferred, it may be placed com¬ 
pletely over the four holes; but care must be taken to 
cover the glass or glasses with flannel or green baize, to 
keep up a proper degree of heat. In three or four days 
the bees will have commenced working in the glasses, and 
from time to time the Apiarian can watch the progress of 
the labours of these industrious and wonderful little insects. 
It will often afford amusement to be able to watch the 
daily progress of building the comb, and this is readily 
done by sticking a small slip of paper on the glass at the 
extremity of the comb; it is often found the work has 
advanced more than an inch in twelve hours. As soon as 
a glass of honey appears to be filled and sealed over by 
the bees, it should at once be removed, and another sub¬ 
stituted to be again filled, and the Apiarian need not be 
afraid of taking the glasses away when full, for the stock 
hive is always well stored before anything is done in the 
glasses. To encourage the bees the more readily to com¬ 
mence working in the glasses, attach small portions of the 
• edges of honey-comb (not brood-comb) at the top of the 
glasses; this can be done by warming the glass on the 
outside where it is intended to fix the comb, and then 
place the piece of comb so provided inside the glass, 
melting it slightly to cause it to adhere; the direction of 
the guide-comb may be according to fancy, so that the 
Apiarian may cause the bees to work in almost any way 
he pleases. 
To take the glasses when filled, it will be necessary to 
proceed as follows, namely,—first to thrust between the 
