514 BEE-KEEPER’S CALENDAR. 
If the surplus cases (724) have been put on before 
the honey crop, there will be a less number of swarms, espe- 
cially if the boxes have been furnished with combs, as baits. 
and the entrance enlarged to help ventilation (344). 
If the Apiary is not carefully watched, the bee-keeper. 
after a short absence, should examine the neighboring bushes 
and trees, on some of which he will often find a swarm 
clustered, preparatory to their departure for a new home 
(419). 
“As it may often be important to know from which hive the 
swarm has issued, after it has been hived and removed to itsnew 
stand, let a cup-full of bees be taken from it and thrown into the 
air, near the Apiary, after having sprinkled them with flour; 
they will soon return to the parent colony, and may easily be 
recognized, by standing at the entrance, fanning, like ventilat- 
ing bees.—Dzierzon. 
This is the quickest method to discover the home ofa 
swarm. 
As fast as the surplus honey receptacles are filled, more 
toom should be given (763). Careless bee-keepers often 
lose much, by neglecting to do this in season, thereby con- 
demning their colonies to a very unwilling idleness. The 
Apiarist will bear in mind, that all after swarms which come 
off late in this month, should be either aided, doubled or 
returned to the mother-colony. With movable-frame hives, 
the issue of such swarms may be prevented, by removing, 
in season, the supernumerary queen-cells. During all the 
swarming season, and, indeed, at all other times when 
young queens are being bred, the bee-keeper must ascer- 
tain seasonably, that the hives which contain them, succeed 
in securing a fertile mother (152). 
885. Juty.—In some seasons and districts, this is the 
great swarming month; while in others, bees issuing so 
late, are of small account. In Northern Massachusetts, 
we have known swarms coming after the Fourth of July, tu 
