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and racing and running wildly both inside and outside 

 their hives. In such queenless swarms drones are never 

 killed ; if the bees are seen killing their drones, the bee- 

 keeper has evidence that they not only have queens, but 

 queens timely fertilised and in a normal state. Some 

 few days after young queens begin to lay, the bees begin 

 to worry their drones. Queenless swarms should be fur- 

 nished with queens from other "hives. 



Eldng and supering should be well attend-ed to this 

 month. All full supers should be taken off and others 

 put on. Let us remind the reader that it is an easy 

 matter to get supers filled in July, weather permitting, 

 for now plenty of white comb can be obtained from 

 the hives of swarms, and placed in supers. The bees 

 speedily fix such combs in the supers and fill them 

 with honey. 



In bar-frame hives, the bars filled with honey should 

 be removed, and empty bars placed in their stead. 



August. — Generally speaking, August is the last month 

 of honey-gathering in Great Britain ; and where bees 

 are taken to the moors, it is often the best. From 20 

 to 60 lb. of honey are frequently gathered per hive 

 on the moors. About the first week of this month is 

 the usual time, in ordinary seasons, for removing bees 

 to the heather. Young apiarians are often very unfor- 

 tunate in their first journey with their bees to the moors. 

 An excellent clergyman, who lost a cow by death, wrote 

 in his diary these words, " This day I am a cow poorer, 

 but a thought richer." And many a bee-keeper finds that 

 his first journey with his bees has made him a hive 

 poorer, but a thought richer. Experience is the most 

 effective teacher. In sending oif or removing hives in 

 summer, thorough ventilation should be secured before 



