May Hour Ther. Swarming may be expected in 1 5 42 this month if the hives be rich -- 9 58 and the season favourable. To -- 12 70 prevent which enlarge your 2 5 41 hives, by adding three or four -- 8 48 rounds, i. e. an eke, to the -- 12 60 bottom of each of them. 3 5 43 -- 12 56 If you have the collateral-box 4 7 51 hives, you need only draw up 5 7 52 the tin-slides, or one of them, -- 4 52 as occasion may require. By 6 7 46 this means you enlarge the Bees' -- 1 63 domicil, without admitting the 7 5 42 atmospheric air. This move 8 12 60 so pleases these indefatigable 9 1 78 creatures, that you will behold 10 12 58 at once the utility and humanity 11 12 54 of this mode of management. 12 12 62 13 12 72 14 12 70 -- 1 75 15 5 43 -- 12 70 -- 2 74 16 12 70 Should the weather be seasonable, 17 12 68 the boxes will now be filled 18 8 58 rapidly, and the thermometer 19 8 50 will rise quickly. At this period -- 12 70 ventilation will demonstrate 20 8 58 what has hitherto been a secret -- 12 60 of nature;--viz. many young 21 8 54 sovereigns in various states of -- 12 62 perfection will be seen daily cast -- 2 58 out of the hives: and the waxen 22 8 54 cells will be extended to the -- 12 62 remotest corners of their domicil. -- 2 58 23 7 50 Riches are now rapidly accumulated: -- 12 62 and the glasses filled -- 2 70 with the purest sweets. Small 24 7 50 glasses may be taken off from -- 12 68 the inverted-hives, if the weather -- 2 72 prove fine. 25 5 60 -- 8 62 Mem.--A glass of honey, weighing -- 11 64 12 lbs. and a collateral-box, -- 12 70 weighing 42 lbs. taken. -- 3 71 26 7 58 After taking the above treasure -- 10 74 from the collateral-hive, -- 1 80 and placing an empty glass and -- 4 73 an empty box in the places of 27 6 61 those taken off, the interior -- 10 74 temperature was reduced to 60 -- 12 84 degrees, while the atmosphere -- 2 82 was 56 at twelve o'clock at -- 4 80 night. -- 5 70 28 6 60 -- 12 68 The pure honey taken was -- 2 68 about one-fourth of the weight -- 3 70 of the hive, and it will be -- 8 61 observed that the heat shows a 29 5 60 decrease in the temperature of -- 10 64 one fourth. -- 1 76