132 MONTHLY DUTIES. 
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 surplus 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 ail 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 a 
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 par- 
tially filled, feed the bees liberally, 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 
