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Time of taking up Bees.-Most persons who keep bees neglect to take them up in season. This business is not generally done till Sep temher, about two months after the bees have ceased to collect as much honey as they eat. We have found by weighing hives that they usually grew lighter after the middle of July. In favorable seasons for proiracling the time of collecting honey, when the vege- tation is late and the weather warm and wet, bees may gain till the last of July. But if the season be forward and there be drought the first of July. bees will then have the largest quantity of honey that they will have for the season, unless they can procure it from huckwheat.

 When they cannot collect honey in the latter part of the summer'and first of the fs T, they will eat more, us they are thus active, than they will consume during the same length oftime in winter while they are still Bees frequently e,tt as much honey from the time the honey season is over tin they are taken up in the tall, as they eat in three months tn cold weather.

 Any one who doubts the correctness 0f these remarks can satisfy himself by experi- ments in weighing his bees weekly. We have practiced this way, Hnd these remarks are the result of our observations.

 iGnkes Farmer.