Show the question again JUNCTION you staled in a former issue of your valuable paper that you havo na objection to the public gleaning information and I will therefore avail myself of your courtesy and give a few of my view on abe honeybee honey bee with whose culture and treatment I havo been eagerly preoccupied for a long series of year maejune May June and july are the months for increasing the number of hives by swarming and dividing the combs at this late date I find the queen cell only with difficulty august is drawing near and then cornea the time for killing the drones and laying in alie large stores of honey for winter it is best to leave the lower parts of the hives alone after this date some follow the bad policy extracting all the honey so to eay squeezing it all out thereby brin unease and death to their bebe may take all the honey hat ie boxes and the ibele not uffer whilo if you the combe below many bece will be drowned and others will leavo the uncomfortable harnoi many people neglect to shade bees in this hot weather dt which they are punished by a greatly reduced yield the hot weather keeps ahe batee swarming and produces a bagh temperature of the combs which prevents the boes from working friend of mine to whom I gave similar instruction to those pub como time ago from my pen followed my advise by the last of may be had 13 stands aal now he ha thirty all in good order and promising a yield of no leas than ten hundred when I take honey out in the working season I remove every drone I find before closing I will once more urge all of your readers who are keeping bees shade your hives if you want to obtain good and much honey and the bees to stay with you respectfully Hespect fully yours WM CITY july |