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experimentalists, without the free use of Izal, in the 
manner [ have frequently set forth, as success is then 
doubly assured. 
Former failures with Cheshire’s remedy, and others that 
have been brought forward from time to time, have 
resulted largely because this great principle of vitality 
has not been jirst raised before the operator started in 
his attempt to cure. What did Cheshire do? The stock 
he operated upon was so nearly depopulated, as well as 
being queenless, that as a matter of necessity, before he 
could proceed at all, he added a comb of healthy bees 
and brood with a new queen. Here then was the real 
foundation of his cure, and without knowing it himself, 
he was both misleading himself and others who attemptéd 
to follow him, inasmuch as he pointed out that Phenol was 
the cure, and that alone. 
In concluding this chapter I must assure the reader that 
disease among bees can only become a serious plague 
where it is not discovered early, and is allowed to run 
riot by the non-observant bee-keeper. Neither infectious 
paralysis nor any other bee-disease is to be feared by the 
careful bee-master, who gives immediate attention the 
moment signs of any malady are in evidence.. The 
successful bee-keeper’s policy will not be to “ drift,’ but 
to ACT. 
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