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demned stocks, placed too in empty hives. It is, however, 

 far better if you use the bar-frame hives to build up several 

 bars by tying a little old comb in each bar ; this gives 

 them a good start ; they lose very little time in fastening 

 the comb to the bars and increasing it by making new- 

 comb if they are liberally fed with syrup. 



Look carefully over your stocks ; if you do not observe 

 them carrying in pollen they should be suspected. If the 

 colony is queenless it will quickly be infested by thieves, 

 and when robbing once commences it is more diiScult to 

 stop than many persons imagine. Not only so, the in- 

 mates become dispirited, and allow it to become the resort 

 of the bee-moth. 



Also, it is well to use every precaution just now, when 

 opening hives or making use of honey, to allow none to 

 lie about; honey being scarce it will cause fighting and 

 much trouble, which can easily be prevented by not giving 

 any occasion for it. Those hives in which the supers still 

 remain had better be attended to. We should now advise 

 all the supers to be at once removed ; for, except in favour- 

 able localities, very little more honey will be gathered. 



Work for September. 



About this time complaints are made by practical 

 gardeners of bees eating and destroying their peaches and 

 apricots. It is well known to all careful bee-keepers that 

 their stocks are now, in many instances, in a poor con- 

 dition; therefore, we do not wonder at their attacking 

 all kinds of ripe and mellow fruits. When the honey- 

 harvest has been plentiful the bees never seek fruits. The 

 best way to keep your bees from thus hurting the gardener 

 is to feed them at this time. 



They are now on the alert collecting the last remains 



