SEPTEMBER.
In some localities September gives a very good yield of honey. I recollect one season in particular, since I adopted my present system of bee management, when the yield of box honey in September was very remarkable. Some of my hives of bees filled their full sets of boxes almost entirely in a few days. I think that it was in considerably less than two weeks, that they finished them up, and they had only a slight start—a few small pieces of comb in some of the boxes, and in the others none at all.
Feed at the last of the month to complete all partially filled boxes, and at the very last of the month, or first of October, feed such swarms as may be deficient of stores for winter, if you prefer to do this rather than to equalize by exchange of comb frames, as directed in another place. If you decide to thus equalize, do it the last of October or the first of November.