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connections with the breeding apartment. But if 
empty combs, built in the main hive, are given them, 
they will fill them very rapidly. Use the honey ex- 
tractor regularly, or else the brood combs become filled 
with honey, preventing breeding ; it should be remem- 
bered that during this and the next month, the bees 
needed for wintering are to be reared. If the breed- 
ing part of the hives becomes filled with honey, breed- 
ing cannot take place, and only old bees are taken into 
winter quarters which usually die before young bees are 
raised the following year, and a re-occurrence of that 
mysterious bee disease would be the result, viz : plenty 
of honey, yet no bees in the hive in the following 
spring. 
Should any young stock be deficient in bee-bread, 
exchange a comb or two with an old stock that has an 
excess ; always brush the bees back into their hive, to 
insure the safety of the queen. If any colony is yet in 
possession of its drones, it should be examined to ascer- 
tain whether it is queenless or not. Diminish the size 
of the entrance. 
October. — Honey gathering has now ceased, and all 
weak or light stocks must be fed, or united in the first 
days of this month. Colonies of observing hives may 
be united with queenless stocks, and nuclse with other 
colonies. 
Some full combs should be placed neur the centre of 
