These boxes are just wide enough for two combs running the longest way of the box. Before putting in the glass, if you have any pieces of white, clean comb, it will be a great advantage to stick two small pieces of this comb in each box, where you wish the comb built. Place the pieces in the top of the box two inches apart. Melt the edge of the comb and apply in place where you want it, while hot; hold it in place till it cools, and it will remain. The bees will commence work much sooner in boxes with the comb than they would without, even if the pieces of comb are not more than an inch square. These boxes, when well filled with honey, will each weigh about four and one-half pounds. Honey in the boxes is very attractive, and is sought for in the market by customers who have purchased in this form. Honey put up in these nice glass boxes shows its superior quality at a glance, and customers prefer to purchase in such boxes, with no tare deducted for weight of box, to purchasing in the ordinary wood box with the weight of the box deducted. In taking these boxes from the hive, when filled with honey, in warm weather, I recommend the following method: Take the boxes off early in the morning, and carry them to some out-building, and put them in a clean, tight box or barrel; place the boxes in such a manner that the openings in the boxes will be free for the passage of the bees from them. Spread over the box or barrel, a thin piece of cloth. The bees will leave the boxes, and collect on the under side of the cloth, which must be turned every few minutes, until all are out, except a few drones and very young Lees; these can be taken out with a pencil. To facilitate the removal of the bees from the boxes, if any are obstinate about leaving, remove the glass in the sides of the boxes, _if the cover is not fastened to it_. The greater part of the bees from these boxes will return to their hives; excepting a very few young ones which had never before been away from the hive; these will be lost. Thirty boxes like the ones here recommended fit each controllable hive--ten on each side, and ten on top over the brood section.[5]