It is well that the sides of these be of glass. Such (Fig. 41) may be made as follows: For top and bottom procure soft-wood boards one-fourth of an inch thick and of the size desired, one for the bottom and the other for the top of the box. Take four pieces half an inch square and as long as the desired height of the honey-box. In two adjacent sides of these saw grooves in which may slip common glass. These are for corner pieces. Now tack with small brads the corners of the bottom-board to the ends of these pieces, then slide in the glass, and in similar way tack the top-board to the other ends. Through the bottom-board holes may be bored so that the bees may enter. A similar box is made by A. H. Russell, of Adrian, Mich., except that tin forms the corners. These may be made to take from one to three combs, and are certainly very attractive. If made small and set in a crate so that all could be removed at once, they would leave little to be desired. The Isham box (Fig. 42) is essentially like the Russell; only the tin at the corners is fastened differently. Surely, all great minds do run in the same channel. Another form (Fig. 43) which I find very desirable, and which I used in California (where they were introduced by Mr. Harbison) more than ten years ago, is made as follows: Dress off common lath so that they are smooth, cut off two lengths the desired height of the box, and one the desired width; tack this last piece to the ends of the other two, and to the other end tack a similar strip only half as wide. We now have a square frame. [Illustration: Fig. 42.] [Illustration: Fig. 43.]