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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
Qiieen-raising and drone-raising stocks should now 
be selected, and receive the best attention. 
Robbing is likely to occur. Carefully avoid spilling 
syrup, and keep no hives open longer than necessary. 
Foundation may now be built into comb, and, as 
an aid in this work, dry-sugar feeders are excellent. 
May. 
Good colonies are now becoming crowded, and care 
must be taken to give room as needed, while the 
queens should be encouraged in breeding to their 
utmost. 
Feeding will be required in a wet, cold May, while 
in a fine, warm one. 
Sections must be provided. 
Swarms, if purchased, should, if possible, be secured 
this month. 
Nuclei may be started (page 294), and 
Queen-cells, from selected queens, should now be 
obtained (page 228 et seq.). 
Phacelia, Melilot, Clover, C^c., may be sown ; ground 
otherwise idle may thus be occupied to advantage. 
June. 
Special vigilance must be exercised to prevent the 
swarming of the honey stocks, extracting or adding 
crates of sections or empty combs as may be required. 
Swarms issuing from hives, carrying partially-worked 
sections, may be treated as explained at pages 165 
and 51 1, receiving the sections left on the stocks, 
when the former will be continued with no percep- 
tible check. 
