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boxes on one side first ; then if the bees go to work 

 in them, put in the other side. 



AUGUST. 



If you hiue a market near home, the surplus 

 honey in glass boxes will sell very well the last of 

 this month, before honey is brought from away ; but 

 if you are to ship a great distance, the weather will 

 be too warm in this month. Keep a close watch 

 that the boxes 30U have taken off do not get wormy. 

 Eternal vigilance is the price of success. 



Keep boxes on your hives through this month 

 and next, for surplus honey. Keep down the grass 

 and weeds from about the hives. 



SEPTEMBER. 



In some localities, September gives a very good 

 yield of Jioney. I recollect one season in particular, 

 since I adopted mj' present system of bee manage- 

 ment, when the yield of box honey in September 

 was very remarkable. Some of my hives of bees 

 filled their full sets of boxes almost entirely in a few 

 days. I think that it was in considerably less than 

 two weeks, that they finished them up, and they 

 had only a slight start — a few small pieces of comb 

 in some of the boxes, and in the others none at all. 



Feed at the last of this month, to complete all 

 partially filled boxes, and at the very last of the 

 month, or first of October, feed such swarms as may 

 be deficient of stores for winter, if you prefer to do 

 this rather than to equalize by exchange of comb 

 frames, as directed in another place. If you decide 



