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real earnest. By June 15th there were 

 160 diseased colonies in my home-apiary. 

 I sent for inspector Mortimer Stevens, 

 and he came accompanied by inspector 

 Chas. Stewart. They pronounced it 

 black brood in its worst form, and ad- 

 vised shaking off the bees, stacking up 

 the brood to let what there would of it 



greater part of them and doubled them 

 up. A few were dequeened and given 

 the Alexander treatment the second time, 

 and those colonies cleaned up and stayed 

 cured. Later experience has taught me 

 that it was not the second treatment 

 that effected the permanent cure, but the 

 presence of Italian bees that were hatch- 



View From the Front Porch of Mr. S. D. House's Home, Camillus. New York. 

 Across the valley lie the tracks of the N. Y. Central, over which pass 50 trains daily. 



hatch, burning out the inside of the hives, 

 and the melting up of the combs. They 

 also advised Italianizing. 



Having three out-apiaries, with no one 

 to help me, the item of labor was an 

 important factor; so I decided to give the 

 Alexander plan a trial on part of them. 

 I dequeened 40 colonies, and, 10 days 

 later, gave each a ripe queen cell from 

 healthy Italian stock. I did the work 

 carefully, and was full of hope, but the 

 disease appeared again with the second 

 filling of the combs, I then shook the 



ing out. If 1 had given them more time 

 they would have cleaned up without the 

 second shaking. The rest of the colonies 

 in this apiary were shaken, the combs 

 melted and the frames burned, but the 

 disease reappeared, that same season, in 

 some of the colonies. 



The following season the disease ap- 

 peared in one of my out-apiaries; also in 

 a good many of the colonies at the home- 

 apiary; even among those that had been 

 shaken the previous year but not re- 

 queened. Upon studying over the situa- 



