386 Rules for Wintering. 
We thus are sure that our stores are good and suitable. 
Often it pays to do this as we get enough for the extracted 
honey to pay well for the sugar and our time and trouble. 
If desired this may be fed as previously explained, which 
should be done so early that all will be capped during the 
warm days of October. 
The bees should be able to pass over or through the 
combs. Hill’s device—bent pieces placed above the frames 
so as to raise the cloth cover—will permit the first, while 
small holes cut through the combs will enable the bees to 
pass from one comb to another without having to pass 
around. In a good cellar it is not necessary to do more 
at most than to so arrange that the bees can pass over the 
frames. I used to cut holes, but do so no more. This 
preparatory work I always do early in October, when | 
extract all uncapped honey, take out all frames after I have 
given each colony the thirty pounds, dy we7ght, of honey, 
confine the space with a division board, cover with the 
quilt and chaff, and then leave undisturbed till the cold of 
November calls for further care. I prefer that the combs 
have no pollen in them, and that they be so full of honey 
that six or eight will be enough. Pollen usually does no 
harm, though sometimes it is injurious. If the bees can 
fly often or if kept in a uniform temperature at from 40° to 
45° F., the pollen willdono harm, The combs may well be. 
one-half inch apart. If the bees have been neglected, and 
mid-winter finds them destitute of stores, then they should 
not be fed liquid honey, though this has been done with 
success, but either the Good or Viallon or some other solid 
candy should be placed on the frames just above the cluster. 
Or we may run the candy into a frame and hang it in the 
hive. ‘ 
SECURE LATE BREEDING, 
Keep the bees breeding till the first of September. Except 
in years of excessive drouth, this will occur without extra 
care, Failure may result from the presence of worthless 
queens. Any queens which seem not to be prolific should 
be superseded whenever the fact becomes evident. J regard 
this as most important. Few know how much is lost by 
