bek-kkkpf.e’s cai.endae. . 
365 
If the Apiary is not carefully watched, the hee-kecper, 
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 anew 
home.* 
As fast as the surplus honey-receptacles are filled, f and 
the cells capped over, they should be removed, and empty 
ones put in their place. Careless bee-keepers often loso 
much, by neglecting to do this in season, thereby con- 
demning their colonies to a very unwilling idleness. Tho 
Apiarian will bear in mind, that all small swarms which 
come off late in this month, should be either aided, doubled, 
or returned to the mother-stock. With my hives, tho 
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, suc- 
ceed in securing a fertile mother (p. 218 ). 
July. — 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, I have 
known swarms coming after the Fourth of July, to fill 
their hives, and make large quantities of surplus honey 
besides. In this month, all the choicest spare honey 
should be removed from the hives, before the delicato 
• '■ As it may often bo Important to know from which hivo tho awarm has Issued, 
alter It has been hived and removed to Its now stand, let a cup-fUll of bees bo taken 
from It, and thrown Into tho air, near tho Apiary ; they will soon return to tho 
parent-stock, and may easily bo rocognizod, by their standing at tho entrance, and 
fanning, like ventilating bees.'’— Dzif.uzon. In my hlvos, It will be easy, from tho 
back ventilator, to docldo whether a stook is full enough to swarm, or has recently 
swaimod, oven when tliero is no glass for observation. 
t Mr. Qulnby luforms mo, that ho succeeds In making bees fill a doublo tier of 
small boxes, by placing one set on tho hive first; when they have partially filled 
etlieae, he puts tho second sot under tho first. By making a hole In tho top, us well 
ss id tho bottom of tho box [V\. XI ,.Fig. 2-1), this can easily bo offoctod. 
