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M. Le Abbe Bienaime recommends oat-meal in the 

 dysentery. 



Mr. Iluish approves of all these remedies, and 

 adds, great care should be taken to keep the hives as 

 clean as possible during the prevalence of the dysen- 

 tery amongst your Bees. 



Mr. Huish observes that the antenna of the Bee 

 are sometimes diseased and turn yellow, attended 

 with some swelling ; but considers the disease as 

 slight. He also notices that Bees sometimes have 

 the vertigo, for which no remedy had been discover- 

 ed 5 but this was never general in hives, and not ve- 

 ry serious in its consequences in the swarms. 



The abortive brood, although not an epidemical 

 disorder, is still very injurious in its effects upon the 

 Bees. Two causes produce this effect; 1. When 

 the Bees have given the larva improper food ; 2. 

 When the worm is placed in the cell with the tail to- 

 wards its mouth. In this case, the young Bees, inca- 

 pable of extrication, die and putrify. The Bees ge- 

 nerally remedy the evils of this putrefaction, by re- 

 moving the abortive brood ; but should this accident 

 take place in winter, the infected combs may be cut 

 out when the hives are examined in the spring. The 

 tops of the cells, when sound, are convex and yellow- 

 ish 5 when abortive, concave and blackish. 



CHAP. IX. 



On the Brood. 



Having described the origin of the Bees, the na- 

 tural constitution of the queen, and of the drones, I 

 now proceed to treat of their brood. By the brood, 

 we understand the three different states of the eggs, 

 worm and nymph, and it is on these states, that the 

 prosperity, the conservation, and multiplication of tho 



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