AUGUST.
Continue to take off hives and glasses as they are filled, but supply no fresh ones, the honey season being now chiefly over.
SEPTEMBER.
Small hives remaining upon the stocks that are only partially filled with honey may now be taken off, providing the stock will not be too much impoverished thereby; wherever the chance of this presents itself leave them on through the winter, or until they are emptied by the bees; those partially filled hives taken from rich stocks may be given to weak ones, now, or in the spring as required. Robbers will at this time be carrying on their depredations, and should a serious attack be observed the sliders must be used as before directed.
OCTOBER.
Examine the coverings to the hives that they be all sound, and that no rain be admitted through them; the entrances may now be narrowed; if Taylor's slider be used (page 18) the side with three openings will be most proper for this season.
NOVEMBER.
Clean the floor-boards of the hives, and see that they stand firmly on their pedestals, contract the entrance so that only one bee can come out at a time, for at this season mice are likely to lodge themselves in the hives.
DECEMBER.
The same attentions are necessary this month as in the two preceding, but if the cold should be intense the hives must not be removed.