140 MONTHLY DUTIES. 



If you want swarms, don't put on any boxes. 



About the time fruit blossoms appear, or a little 

 before, open both entrances to their full extent, in 

 all strong and healthy stocks. 



JUNE. 



This is the month for swarms. It is also the 

 month, in most localities, when the best quality of 

 box honey is collected. If you have arranged for 

 swarms to appear this month, have everything in 

 readiness for them. If you are arranging for sur- 

 plus honey, remove the boxes as fast as filled, and 

 replace with empty ones. Hive the swarms as soon 

 as clustered. Be sure not to let them remain in the 

 hot sun for any length of time. Have your hives 

 all ready. This month is a good time to rear 

 queens in the miniature hives. Keep the grass and 

 weeds about the hives cut down. They harbor the 

 moth miller, when suffered to grow about the hives. 



JULY. 



Continue to take off boxes as fast as filled. Keep 

 d sharp lookout that the moth worms do not get in 

 and injure the honey in the boxes which you have 

 removed. If the supply of honey fails when the 

 boxes are only partially filled, feed the bees liberal- 

 ly, until the boxes are finished. Do this as soon as 

 honey fails, as the bees will store faster in boxes if 

 fed as soon as the natural supply of honey ceases. 

 It will be well to put on a few boxes — say, one side 

 to each new swarm which has been hived early : 

 and also on old stocks that swarmed early. Put the 



