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upon its strength, but one is sufficient upon each 
spur. The end of the shoot is stopped by pinch¬ 
ing it off at the third or fourth leaf beyond the 
bunch. The fruit is to be thinned when it is about 
the size of peas, removing half or more according 
to the variety. Tie up the branches. 
Tlie Apiary for Junc.—Pr^ared by M. 
Qiiiiiby, hy request .—When surplus honey is desir¬ 
able, the boxes should, be added to all good colo¬ 
nies early 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 an 
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 
takeu 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 may 
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 
6 wai-m, 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 examiued. They may be so from diseased 
brood, loss, or barrenness of queen. If queenless, 
supply a laying queen. If barren, remove, and 
supply another a few days afterwards. When dis¬ 
eased, drive out to begin anew, or put into a hive 
partly filled with combs of last year, such a one 
as wm 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 than eight or ten days after 
the first sw'arm, 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 arc required to make 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 state of things 
occurs, and while there is yet enough for a good 
swarm left, the hive should be closed with wire 
ciotn, 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 queen, it will be manifested by uneasy 
movements, when another may be provided. Such 
Bwarms, 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 colonies 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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Fourth Annual Strawberry Show. 
The success of former Exhibitions has induced the i 
Proprietor of the Agriculturist to hold another Show of j 
Strawberries the coming season, under the auspices | 
and direction of the Fruit-Grow'ers’ Meeting. At a re- ! 
cent meeting, a Committee, consisting of R, G, Par¬ 
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G. W. Huntsman, was appointed, to make arrange¬ 
ments for the Exhibition. The Committee, in order to ac- ! 
commodate early and late varieties, decided to hold Ex- | 
hibitions on June 8th, and on June 15th, the two days j 
forming one Exhibition. The fruit must all be on the i 
tables by one o’clock on the days above mentioned. The 
Secretary of the Fruit-Growers’ Meeting will be in at- 1 
tendance to take charge of the fruit. At one o’clock the I 
doors will be closed to allow the Judges to make their t 
examination, after which they will be thrown open to the . 
public. The Judges will report after the second Exhibi- [ 
tion, and w'ill make the awards to the best fruit shown on ' 
both occasions. The following gentlemen have been ] 
selected as Judges: S. B. Parsons, Chas. Downing, 
B. C. Townsend, S. B. Conover, J. W. Degraw. j 
SCHEDULE OF PRIZES. 
1. —Best Strawberry, new or old, size, beauty and ex- i 
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4. —Largest and best collection of Strawberries. 5 
5. —Best show of Strawberries in bearing (on plants). 5 
6. —Best maraet variety—(two quarts). 3 
7. —Heaviest three berries of one variety. 8 
8. —Best pint White Strawberries. I 
9. —Best pint Alpines. 1 
10. —Best new seedling, fruited at least two years, but 
never offered for sale or exhibition, a be.aring plant 
to be shown. 5 
11. —Best collection of the newer imported varieties..' 2 
12. —Best show of Strawberries grown on a city or 
village lot (25x100 feet).-. 2 
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Triomphe de Gand, Wilson, Hovey, Buffalo, 
Burr’s New Pine, or Hooker, $1 each.11 
C. TABER, Sec. of Com. 
New-A^orlc Live Stock Marlcefs.— 
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 trade, 
and that prices of beef must be enormously high, has 
failed to be confirmed. The supply of bullocks is ampie, 
and the quality has run better thus far this spring than 
during the winter, and present appe.arances indicate a 
stiil heavier decline in prices. Cattle which were re¬ 
ported last month at 22(S)23c. per ft, dressed weight, now 
sell at 18®I9c.; good sell at 16(3)17c.; fair at,15@16o.. 
and common at 13(314c. 
Mtlcli Cows have averaged 108 during the last four 
weeks. The light demand has prevented owners bringing 
In as freely as last month. Rates range at $40(®$76 for 
poor to good milkers. 
Veal Calves.—The receipts are much heavier than 
reported last month, averaging 2,549 weekly. Good veals 
sell at 9|®llc. per lb., live weight. 
Sliecp 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 lOM 
(®ll}ic.per lb. for unshorn, and 9®10c. per ft. for shorn. 
liive Hogs have 'arrived' in comparatively large 
supplies, the weekly average being 6,822, compared with 
3,764, the average last month. Sales for good light hogs 
range at 10(®I0Xc, per lb., live Weight. 
