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to be sure that the honey is all exhausted ; and if it is in 

 a time when there is no honey-flow the bees want to be fed. 



Mr. Kimmey — How about the young that have been 

 started in two weeks, or would they start? 



Mr. Smith — You cut that comb out and melt it up into 

 wax. 



Mr. Kimmey — Suppose that the disease is carried by the 

 honey that the bees have at the time they make the first 

 change, won't the disease go on with the next brood? 



Mr. Smith — You will find very little brood in the new 

 comb. Of course it would be in the very young larval stage. 

 The disease never attacks the young bees until they get in 

 the state called the- grub state. After the bees become in 

 the nymph state the disease never attacks them. I have 

 never found any that were killed after taking the form of 

 the nymph, with legs and wings. 



Mr. Kimmey — ^Before that time w.on't the bees that have 

 become infected with the honey carry that infection to the 

 brood that is started in two weeks? 



Mr. Smith — I think not. I don't think that the disease 

 can be developed in two weeks. At least I have never found 

 any disease. I have had some parties that didn't change their 

 bees back into the second frames until they had capped brood, 

 and I found no disease there. 



Mr. Kimmey — Won't it then be better to put them on 

 empty frames the first time? 



Mr. Smith — I think it would, because it has a tendency 

 for them to exhaust their honey in building new comb. 



Mr. Kimmey — And afterwards destroy them and put them 

 on full foundation. 



Mr. Smith — Put them on full foundation the second 

 change. 



Pres. York — I would like to ask in how many apiaries 

 Mr. Smith found disease, and what percent he visited ? 

 Mr. Smith — The percent I visited was probably 90. 

 Pres. York — Do you know how many apiaries you 

 visited ? 



Mr. Smith — I have a record of that, but I didn't bring 

 it with me. 



Pres. York — How many colonies did you examine? 

 Mr. Smith— Over 2,000. 



Mr. Swift — Is the disease exterminated by melting the 

 wax? Does heat destroy it?. 



Mr. Smith — Yes. Mr. Dadant can tell that. He gets 

 thousands of pounds ©f wax sent in, extracted from diseased 

 colonies, and he has never had any complaint against it. 



Mr. Pease — Will you give us a plan by which the per- 

 son who never saw foul brood will recognize it? 



Mr. Smith — Did you ever smell a carpenter's glue-pot? 

 It puts me in mind of the young man who went to the medical 

 college. When he returned home they wanted to know all 

 about it. He says, "Now I will tell you, If you had seen 

 what I have seen, and felt what I have felt, and smelt what 

 I have smelt, you would know all about it." [Laughter.] If 



