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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[June, 
upou its strength, but one is sufficient upon eacli 
spur. Tlie end of the shoot is stopped by pincU- 
1ns it off "■^ '•"= ^^"'^ °'' fourtli '^'''f beyond the 
bunch. The fruit is to be thinned wheu it is about 
the size of peas, removinj,' half or more according 
to the variety. Tic up the branches. 
The Apiary for 3ime.— Prepared by M. 
Quiniy, by request.— Viheu surplus honey is desir- 
able, the boxes should, be .idded to .ill good colo- 
nies e-irly in this month. At this season, when the 
flowers of the white clover appear, there can be 
no harm if the boxes are on a few days before they 
are really needed. Do not neglect to stick some 
nice pieces of clean, white comb in the top, as au 
encouragement for the bees to begin. As fast as 
filled, they should be replaced with empty ones. 
As long as honey is collected plentifully, full boxes 
taken out may be set by the side of the hive for 
the bees to leave ; but it will not do when it begins 
to be scarce. They must not stand in the sun. 
Most of the swarms may also be expected this 
month. Small apiaries swarm more, in proportion 
to the number of hives, than large ones. Many 
persons hesitate about putting on the boxes before 
swarming, fearing that it will delay, if not alto- 
gether prevent it. There are cases when it m.iy 
have that effect, but when it does, it is not very 
disastrous. A strong stock that casts no swarm, 
will store much more honey than a swarming 
hive. The honey, put In market and sold, will 
often bring sufficient money to buy two or three 
stocks. I advise putting on the boxes ; if they 
swarm, it is well — there may be some honey also ; 
if they do not, it is probably better. But do not 
expect both, to any great extent. Stocks that do 
not swarm, and remain weak till this time, should 
be examined. They may be so from diseased 
brood, loss, or barrenness of queen. If queenless, 
Rupply a laying queen. If barren, remove, and 
supply another a few d.ays afterw,ards. When dis- 
eased, drive out to begin anew, or put into a hive 
partly filled with combs of last year, Bucli a one 
as we suggested should be saved last fall for the 
new swarms. But it would be well first, to keep 
the bees, at least forty-eight hours after driving out, 
in an empty box or hive, to digest the honey taken 
with them, before putting them among the pure 
combs. Bees should on no account be driven out 
of a hive within less th.an eight or ten days after 
the first swarm, or before the young queen hatches. 
Unless some emergency demands it, twenty days 
should intervene. 
After Swarms are those which issue with young 
queens. Two or more are required to m.ake a 
colony as large as a first swarm. When they issue 
near together, unite them, till a good swarm is 
hived. When two or more after-swarms are united, 
they are not always as quiet as others. The queen 
of each swarm is a stranger to some of the bees, 
and is imprisoned by their clustering around her. 
In a short time, the bees not having access to 
their own queen, become very much dissatisfied, 
and, after looking throughout the new hive, leave 
for some other new swarm, or perhaps return to 
the old stock, attracting all the bees, except the 
few that are holding the queens. Five or six, or a 
dozen, may go at once, flying about considerably ; 
and a steady stream, at that rate, will soon take out 
all the bees, and a careless observer will not know 
when nor where they are gone, and may not miss 
them until evening. The hive to which they are 
attracted may be generally known by the bees 
stopping about the entrance, and buzzing a mo- 
ment before they enter. When this st.ate of things 
occurs, and while there is yet enough for a good 
Bwarm left, the hive should be closed with wire 
clotn, if possible, or something that will admit 
sufficient air, as a swarm of bees is easily smother- 
ed in hot weather. It is a good way to turn the 
hive on its side, after fastening in the bees ; carry 
to a cool cellar for a day, when they will usually 
become reconciled. Should they have destroyed 
their last qneen, it will be manifested by uneasy 
movements, when another may be provided. Such 
awarms, when they go to work, are liable to lose 
their queen, on account of her being unable to fly, 
from injuries received while imprisoned by the 
bees. If the first combs that they build are for 
drones, it proves they have no queen. They will 
accept another at once. When two large first 
swarms get together, and you have the movable 
comb hive, it is about as well, and much the least 
trouble, to hive them together, and when the hive 
is nearly full, if you want two colonics instead of 
one, and the extra surplus honey, you may divide. 
Secure straight combs, by elevating one end of the 
hive at least 30 degrees. Have it level the other 
way, .and make the other edge of the guide bar, at 
the top, smooth. 
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forming one Exhibition. The fruit must all be on the 
tables by one o'clock on the days above mentioned. The 
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tendance to take charge of the fruit. At one o'clock the 
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C. TABER, Sec. of Com. 
New- York I>ive Stock Markets.— 
Beef Cattle have come in pretty uniformly during the 
past few weeks, the average weekly receipts being 4,310 
head— an increase of about 250 over the average for the 
previous month. The impression that drovers during 
the past winter have sought to make universal, namely, 
that there were no cattle in the West for the spring Iiade, 
and that prices of beef must be enormously high, has 
failed to be confirmed. The supply of bullocks is ample, 
and the quality has run better thus far this spring than 
during the winter, and present appearances indicate a 
still heavier decline in prices. Catlle which were re- 
ported last monlh at22®23c. per lb, dressed weight, now 
sell at 18®19c. ; good sell at 16i®17c. ; fair at 15®lCc.. 
and common at \Z(a}\ic. 
inilch CoM-s have averaged 108 during the last four 
weeks. The light demand has prevented owners bringing 
in as freely as last monlh. Rates range at $40iai$75 foi 
poor to good milkers. 
Veal Calves.— The receipts are much heavier than ' 
reported last month, averaging 2,549 weekly. Good veals 
sell at 9® lie. per lb., live weight. 
Sheep have come in pretty freely, the supply aver- 
aging 8,448 weekly. The numbers of sheared sheep 
equalled the wooled. Prices of good sheep range at 10>i 
OllJic. per lb. for unshorn, and 9OI0c. per ft. for shorn. 
Live Hogs have arrived in comparatively large 
supplies, the weekly average being 6.82'2, compared with 
3.764, the average last monlh. Sales for good light liogs 
range at ID®10;ic. per lb., live weight. 
