stone. Let it remain until )mur bees are dead, and 
you will have accomplished the September manage- 
ment. 
OCTOnER MANAGEMENT. 
The honey -season may now be considered closed, as 
buckwheat, the last honey-producing crop of any note, 
is usually out of blossom, and bees seldom gather any 
honey except from transient flowers after this. If you 
have neglected the September management, you must 
now put it off no longer. Small swarms must now be 
joined together, if done at all. If all the stocks are in 
movable comb hives it is not a difficult task, as they 
may be well fumigated and then winged together ; first 
capturing the queens and caging them, that you can 
have them in case any accident should befall those 
remaining, in the colonies joined together, which may 
be ascertained in a few days. If you have queenless 
colonies, these may be joined to smaller colonies that 
have queens, unless you have surplus queens to supply 
them with. These colonies that have been joined 
together must now have honey enough given them to 
carry them through until spring flowers make their 
appearance. Your estimate of the quantity of honey 
you will probably need may be made from the rule 
laid down in the September management, and will be 
found to prove sufficient in ordinary cases. The frames 
containing the honey from those hives you have taken 
the bees from, may be placed jn the chamber of the 
hive, one at a time, laying some little pieces of wood 
between the tops of the frames and the one you put in 
the chamber, that the bees can have a chance to run 
over the whole surface of the coinb ; then by scratching 
