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destroyed.* Then at last I knew once more the true 
pleasures of bee-keeping, and enjoyed the sight of all 
healthy stocks with the combs occupied by larve of the 
usual pearly whiteness, which denotes health, vigour, and 
an end to the long period of anxiety and losses. 
I am convinced that the spores of the disease need cause 
no anxiety just because it is considered they may float 
in the air and would naturally adhere to one’s clothing. 
I had another apiary some two miles from the one then 
suffering from the disease, and I would go straight from 
the infected stocks to this apiary, and make the usual 
examinations. My hands only had been cleansed, but 
during the whole period, the said out-apiary remained 
perfectly free from the disease. I have stronger evidence 
to show you yet, that even the bees themselves do not 
carry infection by leaving their own diseased stock and 
entering a clean hive, but this will be explained in due 
course. 
4.—Bees flying from their own diseased hives do not carry 
infection to any point of ‘contact with other workers, from, or in 
other hives, except only under the conditions of natural swarming ; 
eg.: (a) No disease is communicated from flower to flower in 
consequence of the visits of such bees. (b) No outside watering or 
feeding apparatus is thus contaminated. (c) A bee flying from 
its own (diseased) hive may enter a clean hive without danger to 
the latter.+ 
In proceeding to give proofs in support of clause (c), I 
shall have shown sufficient to prove all other points 
contained in my present proposition. 
Some of my most remarkable experiences occurred some 
fifteen years since, when I carried out an important 
* After this early experience I found it was not necessary to 
destroy any but quite old or irregular combs. 
+ When swarming, the bees fill themselves with honey before 
leaving the hive. 
