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acts in the presence of brood in a manner similar to the 
removal of brood without medication. In each case the 
germ reaches a finality without reproduction ; z.e., without 
the means of propagation, and because there is no soil for 
its further development. 
Foul Brood Correctly Named. 
Every experiment resulting in a successful cure goes to 
disprove the theory that Baczl/us alvez is, as some will 
have it, a disease of the bees. Take away the brood, or 
the means of continuing its production, and behold the 
bees need no medicine to .cure them, while they are 
almost at once capable of tending a perfectly healthy 
brood nest, and of keeping it so. Then again the germs 
of disease, when present in the bees, are only to be found 
in comparatively small numbers. The soil is not suitable 
for rapid development, and should a worker die, the 
extent of its malady is confined to its own body. In the 
workers the disease does not pass from the dead to 
the living. In the larve that is its most terrible means 
of infection. 
The same state of restriction is found in the case of the 
queen; for I have on numerous occasions during many 
years’ experience, given queens from diseased stocks to 
those quite healthy, and on no single occasion have I 
found the complaint communicated by so doing.* 
Moreover, there is the fact of the exchange of stocks 
before mentioned. Not only were the large number of 
workers of all ages from the diseased hive incapable of 
transmitting the complaint to their new nursery, but the 
same bees rapidly built up a weak into a powerful colony. 
The saving clause was that they arrived there without 
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* Nevertheless, it is possible a queen removed from a very badly 
affected stock may be the means of infection when given to another. 
