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yield, if you have boxes half filled or more, feed all they 
will take up for a few days, or until your boxes are 
finished. 
FEEDING FOR WINTER. 
In September or October feed such stocks as are short 
of stores, to winter them. Each stock should have twenty 
pounds of honey in the brood section to winter safely. 
If they have less than that, feed until they have that 
quantity, or take a frame of honey from a stock that has 
some to spare, and exchange with the one that is short, 
and so proceed until all have sufficient stores to winter 
safely. 
In no case take out frames at the close of the season, 
and leave that space without a frame, or with an empty 
frame. At the commencement of winter every hive 
must (to winter safely) have its full number of frames 
filled with comb, no matter if they are not filled with 
honey (if the hive has the required number of pounds,) 
but each frame must be filled, or nearly filled with comb, 
or there is great danger of loss from sudden changes of 
temperature through the winter. 
In feeding for box honey, it often requires more than 
one pound of feed to secure a pound in boxes, for the 
bees consume some while storing it, and they often find 
some place in the hive which, like the crowded omnibus 
or street car is not so full but that additions may be 
made. It would not pay to feed for box honey, were 
there no yield of honey from natural sources. 
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