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APRIL. eon 
In the latter part of the last month, and the beginn 
of this, some marks of the dysentery may be perceiv 
when the bees have not had all the care and a 
tion paid them, which we have previously pointed 
because this malady is very rare indeed, when sufficie 
care has been taken to prevent, or check its progress, by — 
the solid aliments and sirups before prescribed, which are 
sovereign remedies. (That is the farina, salt, and sirups, 
as mentioned in the prescription for December.) 
The neuters or working bees, are already in active ope- 
ration; the construction of cells advances astonishingly, 
and the lay of the queen is prodigious. The empty cells 
are instantly supplied with eggs, by the mother bee; and 
the drones, hatched from the couvain of the preceding 
year, will make it their first care to fecundate all these 
new eggs, which, after this operation, will, by the law of 
nature, hatch themselves. 
The warmth of the atmosphere now begins to hatch the 
eges of all oviparous insects, disseminated by nature in 
mosses, in barks, in chinks of rocks, &c. Among the num- 
ber of insects thus hatched, is the night miller; the female 
of which tries to introduce herself into hives, to lay her 
eggs, which produce the most dangerous enemy to bees, 
viz. the moth—which is the most indefatigable and invul- 
nerable destroyer of the combs. This miller should be 
watched. It may be easily taken when it approaches the 
hives, and should be destroyed for the benefit of the bees. 
At the end -of this month, the bees may be left at full 
liberty. ‘ However, it is the season when hungry hives 
commonly attack those which are better supplied, and 
offer no resistance. It requires all the watchfulness and 
_ attention of the people who have charge of the apiary, to 
preserve order and harmony among the bees. When these 
robbers make their appearance, a general examination of 
the apiary should be made; the state of the resources of 
each family inspected, and means devised, not only to re- 
pel attacks, but also to prevent the bees themselves from 
destroying their own resources. 
MAY. : 
This is the most charming of all the months. All 
the vegetables have resuscitated from the tombs, in which 
they were confined by winter. They are each adorned 
