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Honey. Directions often given for removing from
the hive, very unsafe. If taken away
in large boxes the queen is often taken
away with it, and the colony materially
injured, if not entirely ruined. 
Receptacles for. If much honey is consumed in making wax,
then the Apiarian should aim to have his spare
honey stored in as small weight of wax as possible. Hence the shape
and size of receptacles for surplus honey very important. The bees
should be encouraged to store it in regularly shaped cells not too deep. 
Tumblers require too much capping for the amount of honey, square
receptacles for say two combs best, not too high, or else comb will
be made too heavy, not higher than six inches. This question ought
to be subjected to the most rigorous demonstration. The amount of
honey requisite to make a given amount of wax does not appear to me to
have been ascertained with sufficient exactness. I have found that if during the
height of the working season small receptacles be used, there may be constantly taken
away a few at a time, and if their places be supplied with new ones containing small
pieces of comb, the bees will at once proceed to refill them. In this way the taking away
of small quantities at a time may be made to stimulate the bees to increased activity
whereas every experienced Apiarian knows that the taking away of honey in large receptacles
greatly discourages the bees, so that they will often refuse to work in the empty boxes
presented to them. Hence, although bees may not work to as much advantage in tumblers
or small vessels as in large ones, yet on the whole more work may be got out of them
in this way than by the use of large boxes.