Surplus honey receptacles today a new plan had occurred to me of getting
March 2nd 1868 surplus honey receptacle which in connection with
the small box arrangement for top of hive may prove
of very great utility side view
Six narrow slots 1/2 inch wide by two inches long
are made in the side of the hive board screwed over them where
not in use against side of hive is screwed or fastened
a box thus the screws or nails in the upright cleats within this box set six boxes
three in each tier with holes on one side to let in bees and
have the outside side or end of each glass have shutter over or outside door to
cover them all if desirable use a little line wool or old woolen rags to keep them
warm. Eight smaller boxes perhaps better use this arrangement on each side of the
hive. Room for say 7 [illegible] Of honey thus obtained and with one tier of small boxes on
top say 6 inches high you have room for 50 pounds more in the [illegible] hive the [illegible]
work in [illegible] in the top boxes whose smaller number can [illegible]
more heat ascends [illegible] the hive can be made swarmer or non swarmer [illegible]
at will with this admirable feature that the hive is not [illegible] for one person
to manage except when bees [illegible] it is of same size as before. 
If bees will store any better for brood being near to boxes, easy when [illegible]
boxes are put on to set brood next to them. These boxes reached with great
facility by the bees. If upper boxes are not used easy to manipulate with the
frames without disturbing the surplus arrangement 3rd the box to hold [illegible]
side boxes easily secured to the [illegible] Should prefer inch diameter hole
for sides of [illegible] make side of box with entrance hole not over 1/8 inch thick of course
a single box might be used instead of many where [illegible]
aimed at perhaps a hole in the top of cover box and a corresponding one [illegible]
of upper box might by facilitating communication [illegible]
careful to supply each box with a nice piece of empty comb. If a little soft or
melted wax was applied around the hole as the smaller boxes were put in place [illegible]
the bees would enter them sooner, [illegible] edges of boxes with a thin knife [illegible]
air tight. More encouragement needed to induce bees [illegible]
To get in my old style of boxes, side box must be about 11 1/2 to 12 inches in the [illegible]
[illegible] would require to be set out farther, but it would be better to [illegible]
a box of different dimensions. 6th To get largest yield of honey in the [illegible]
Let [illegible] so as to [illegible] 1/16 inch thick 1/2 [illegible]
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