310 FALL MANAGEMENT. 



Stocks, will probably depend on the section of country. 

 Where the principal source is clover and basswood, it 

 will fail partially, at least, before the end of warm 

 weather. 



Some poor or medium stocks will continue to rear 

 brood too extensively for their means, and exhaust 

 their winter stores in consequence ; such will need a 

 supply of honey. But where great quantities of 

 buckwheat are sown, cold weather follows almost im- 

 mediately after this yield, and stops the breeding. 

 Consequently a scarcity of bees is more frequent than 

 honey. There are exceptions, of course ; I am speak- 

 ing of these cases generally. My experience has 

 mostly been in a section where this crop is raised, and 

 will say" that there is not more than one season in ten, 

 but that the honey will be in proportion with the bees 

 the iirst of September; that is, if there are bees enough, 

 there will be honey enough. 



WHEN BEES ARE NEEDED. 



I have frequently had stocks with stores amply 

 suf&cient to carry a good family through the winter, 

 and yet too few bees to last till January, or even to 

 defend themselves from the robbers. Hence I am in 

 the habit of supplying bees oftener than honey. 



I usually have some few hives with too little honey, 

 as well as too few bees. Now it is very plain if the 

 bees of one or more of this class were united with the 

 first successfully, we should have a respectable family. 

 I have made additions to stocks in this way that proved 

 first-rate. 



