>The only result of fall feeding was to prolong broodrearing past the
normal shut down date, and thus delay the formation of winter bees.

I have had good success increasing the winter cluster size of weaker
colonies doing just this.  For example this season the growth rate of early
July splits was stemmed due to a significant dearth/drought.   The fall
flow got them back going, but wasn't enough.   Sub sustained an extra round
of brood rearing to get them up to a better cluster size for wintering.

Adam,

Barrie, ON

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