Moonshae, if you believe what George Imirie says about feeding, the following is quoted from one of his pink pages:
In Maryland, a colony should have about 70 pounds of honey (not thin nectar or syrup) to make it through the winter. 70 pounds honey ='s about 12 FULL deep frames or 18 medium, 6 5/8" frames. Don't wait until October or November to start feeding 2:1 sugar syrup. Bees do NOT store heavy sugar syrup! Bet you did not know that! They treat that 2:1 syrup just like nectar, where they inject the enzyme invertase into it to convert the sugar sucrose into the simple sugars fructose and glucose, evaporate the excess water from it and store it as honey made from sugar. Your bees need time and weather above 50° to do this, so start feeding in September.
For what it's worth!