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Swarming for increase may be continued through 
the month. 
Feeding swarms issuing at the beginning of pro- 
tracted bad weather is very important. 
Extract the fruit honey separately from that from 
white clover, which is in full yield at the latter part 
of this month. 
July. 
This is commonly the busiest season, yielding the 
greatest weight of honey, as wild flowers abound, and 
the clovers are followed immediately by lime. 
Gluts of Honey will occasionally force the bees to 
fill up the brood-nest with store ; in this case they 
hang idle in front of the hive, as before swarming. 
In giving additional room, provide as much clean comb 
as possible (pages 494 and 502). 
Shade is desirable, lest combs melt, and fall from 
their attachments ; but light-coloured, wooden hives, 
with ample entrance, or propped up from the floor- 
board, can hardly, thus far, suffer in the most ardent 
rays of the sun. 
Section-crates may now be removed as fast as fully 
sealed. 
August. 
Those who are near to heather have yet another 
harvest for their bees, as the moors now assume their 
purple tone. Frame hives and sleeps travel best to 
the moors as explained at page 429. 
Drones are usually now worried out of the hives. 
If any colony suffer its drones to live when they have 
