bek-kef.per’s calendar. 
365 
If the Apiary is not carefully watched, the bee-keeper, 
after a short absence, should examine the neighboring 
bushes and trees, on some of which he will often find a 
swarm cluster ed, preparatory to their departure for a new 
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 lose 
much, by neglecting to do this in season, thereby con¬ 
demning their colonies to a very unwilling idleness. The 
Apiarian will bear in mind, that all small swarms which 
come off late irr this month, should be either aided, doubled, 
or returned to the mother-stock. With my hives, the 
issue of such swarms may be prevented, by removing, in 
season, the supernumerary queen-cells. During all the 
swarming seasotr, and, indeed, at all other times when 
young queens are beitrg bred, the bee-keeper must ascer¬ 
tain seasonably, that the hives which contain them, suc¬ 
ceed in securing a fertile mother (p. 218 ). 
J uly.— 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 delicate 
• M As it niny often be important to know from which hive the swarm has issued, 
niter it lifts been hived and removed to its new stand, let a cup-full of bees be taken 
from It, and thrown into the air, near the Apiary; they will soon return to the 
parent-stock, and may easily bo recognized, by their standing at the entrance, and 
fanning, like ventilating bees.'— Dzierzon. In my hives, it will be easy, from the 
back ventilator, to decido whether a stock is full enough to swarm, or has recently 
swavmed, even when there is no glass for observation. 
t Mr. Quinby informs me, that he succeeds In making bees fill a double tier of 
small boxes, by placing one set on the hivo first; when they have partially filled 
these, he ,iuts the second sot under the first By making a hole in the top, as well 
id the. bottom of the box ^Pl. XI, Fig. 24), this can easily be effeetod. 
