If you wish surplus honey instead of swarms, put on your side boxes as early in the spring as the bees commence brisk work on flowers,--as a general rule, say a few days before fruit blossoms appear. Feed as directed for swarms until about ten days before white clover blossoms, then put on the top boxes, leaving room only for feeder. Then for ten or twelve days feed them all they will take. Feed at evening. They will at first, perhaps, take from five to ten pounds every night. _Crowd them hard_, for the object is now to get every part of the brood section (not occupied by eggs and brood) filled with honey; and if possible, crowd the bees into the boxes to commence the work of comb building, so that during the yield of honey from flowers, you can get every ounce collected, stored in the boxes. By _early and judicious feeding_, we have encouraged breeding so that now our hives are filled, almost to overflowing, with bees, ready to gather the harvest from the flowers as soon as they commence to yield honey. Discontinue feeding, while the yield of honey continues in full supply from the flowers. At the close of the yield, if you have boxes half filled or more, feed all they will take up for a few days, or until your boxes are finished. Feeding for Winter. The last of September or first of October feed such stocks as are short of stores, to winter them. Each stock should have twenty pounds of honey in the brood section to winter safely. If they have less than that, feed until they have that quantity, or take a frame of honey from a stock that has some to spare, and exchange with the one that is short, and so proceed until all have sufficient stores to winter safely. In no case take out frames at the close of the season, and leave that space without a frame, or with an _empty_ frame. At the commencement of winter every hive must (to winter safely) have its full number of frames _filled_ with comb, no matter if they are not filled with _honey_ (if the hive has the required number of pounds,) but each frame must be filled, or _nearly_ filled with comb, or there is great danger of loss from sudden changes of temperature through the winter. In feeding for box honey, it often requires more than one pound of feed to secure a pound in boxes, for the bees consume some while storing it, and they often find some place in the hive which, like the crowded omnibus or street car, is not so full but that additions may be made. The reader will bear in mind this simple fact: _Bees do not make honey, they simply collect it._ Honey undergoes no chemical change in the stomach of the bee.