HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



European, and, unless speedily cured, will in 

 a short time ravish and destroy an entire 

 apiary. 



It is primarily a bacterial disease of the 

 larva, and when once a spore of the disease 

 takes possession of a larva, it spreads with 

 wonderful rapidity. 



It is usually transmitted to a healthy colony 

 in one of two ways : either by the introduction 

 of a new queen that may have come from 

 some section of the country where the disease 

 is prevalent, or by the bees of a healthy 

 colony robbing honey from an infected hive, 

 and the spores carried in the honey that was 

 robbed. This danger has led a great many 

 beekeepers to kill all of the attendant bees 

 that accompany the queen in her journey 

 through the mails, and reserve only the queen 

 for introduction; and this is a most excellent 

 precautionary measure to adopt. 



Beginners are very liable to confuse chilled 

 dead brood, or pickled brood, with foul brood, 

 and become needlessly alarmed; but when 



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