CALENDAR. 
637 
Drones may be preserved till the end of the next 
month in any stocks, queenless or not, by constant 
feeding. 
Feed up to wintering weight, getting the operation 
completed by the end of the month. 
Pollen may be transferred, in a frame carrying 
abundance, from any stock to your condemned bees, 
the latter giving in exchange one of their newly-built 
white combs ; both stocks will thus be gainers. 
Unite weak colonies and nuclei, if not done pre- 
viously. 
October. 
Stocks now return from the moors, and honey for 
the year is over. 
Wintering Preparations must now be made. Con- 
dense the bees, and increase the interspaces of the 
combs. Consult “ Wintering.’^ 
Hives^ if leaky in the roof, or in any other way in 
need of attention, should have their contents trans- 
ferred to sound ones, for the benefit of the stock and 
the repair of the hives. 
Shelter the hives in front, in anticipation of snow 
(page 533), so that the bees may not be bewildered 
about their entrance by new arrangements in colder 
weather. 
Condemned Bees, in the first or second week of the 
month, if strong in numbers, may still be fed into 
good stocks, especially if helped by one or two pollen- 
bound combs. 
Honey and comb must receive attention, the latter, 
if free of moth trail (page 576), being carefully packed, 
or hung up until required in the spring. 
