HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



extent of its ravages in the North; though 

 the ravages of the disease in warm climates 

 have been known to clean out an entire apiary, 

 and is as dreaded as foul brood. Sometimes 

 the removal and killing of the queen will work 

 a cure, and would seem to indicate that the 

 disease was inherited from the queen, but 

 some experiments have proved that dequeen- 

 ing fails to accomplish the desired result. 

 Perhaps the best way to cure it is to remove 

 from the diseased hive all of its frames of 

 brood and give them without their bees to a 

 strong colony for a day or more, and giving 

 a liberal sprinkling of powdered sulphur to the 

 bees remaining in the affected colony; thus a 

 cure is generally accomplished. 



Spring dwindling of a colony is not a disease, 

 but rather a condition, and is usually the 

 result of a cold spell following the removal of 

 bees from their winter cellars. Uniting such 

 colonies has not proved the best plan, and a 

 much better one is to place a queen-excluding 

 zinc on top of a strong colony and on it set the 



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