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early. Put the boxes on one side first; then if the 
bees go to work in them, put in the other side. 
AUGUST. 
If you have a market near home, the surplus honey in 
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 you 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 honey. I recollect one season in particular, since I 
adopted my present system of bee management, when 
the yield of box honey in September was very remark- 
able. 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 the month to complete all partially 
filled boxes, and at the very last of the month, or first of 
