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brood as the swarm shaken from a colony would be. Would 

 it not answer the purpose, instead of keeping those bees so 

 long, on foundation, to catch the queen and prevent her from 

 laving, as Mr. Smith says, and close the entrance for four 

 days and they would consume the honey, no matter what the 

 horiey-flow would be? 



Mr. Smith — That would be a very good idea, I think, to 

 catch the old queen to keep her from laying. It takes a 

 brood or an egg to develop, I think it is nine days until it 



The late Mrs. I<. Harrison. 



comes into a fully-developed pupa — as we call it when it 

 fills the cell ready to cap; that is the time that foul brood 

 attacks the larva ; and after the bees cap it, then it goes into 

 the nymph state. I have never yet found any bees in that stage 

 of growth or development that were affected with foul brood. 

 It seems that the tissue of it gets so tough that the spores 

 do not enter it. 



Mr. Moore — One gentleman has raised the question as 

 to the great damage that is likely to be done to a bee- 

 keeper by the inspector. I want to ask these people who 

 have had experience in this matter, what is the probable 



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