144 A Modern Bee-Farm 
aroused the brood may be half dead and putrid, while 
never a bee has attempted to remove the foul matter. 
But, you go one fine morning to the apiary later in 
spring, and the bees are tumbling over each other in their 
hurry, while many are so loaded as to reach the entrance 
laboriously. Ah! that means honey, natural excitement, 
new vigour and vitality! Watch now the combs from day 
to day of any colony that has not become utterly 
depopulated. There will be no further extension of the 
malady, but first a restriction, then a decline, and with 
such manipulation as I have already offered my readers, 
finally a complete cure. Indeed, what disease can stand 
in the face of a renewed life, a greater vitality built upon 
new food which is creating such active tissue as bids 
‘defiance to disease germs. 
A Rest from Brood-rearing. 
Then again, suppose you remove the queen, not because 
she may perpetuate the disease, but just to give the workers 
a rest, for there is nothing in any state of life so wearing 
as the giving of one life for another, in driblets, as it were. 
After such removal the bees, soon having no nursing to do, 
turn their attention to cleaning out the foul cradles, and 
presently everything is so neat that one would never 
imagine disease had so recently lurked in many of the 
cells. Of course, a queen-cell must be given them, and if 
this is done during the active season, the improved tone 
and vigour of the workers is such that the brood nest 
shortly developed by the action of the young queen, is 
proof against further inroads of the disease. 
Renewed Vitality—Basis of Cure. 
Nevertheless, though I have shown that in such cases a 
rousing activity will always end in a cure, I do not by 
any means advise such attempts to be made by any but 
