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those under their charge, to die out through sheer helpless- 
ness and incapacity; or have destroyed other stocks in a 
panic of fear, and ignorance of the true principles of 
recuperative and life-giving vitality. 
These and other bee-keepers have allowed lethargy and 
decay to reign supreme, where otherwise they might have 
secured increased vigour, and a rousing vitality that would 
have ensured a large increase and more profitable results. 
Many writers whose experience is limited by their own 
failures, insist that the disease is incurable, despite definite 
and conclusive facts to the contrary. 
Definite Treatment Ensuring a Definite Cure. 
In the successful treatment of foul brood I was able to 
show, many years ago, how the affected stock could be 
renovated by a change of queens after an interval, as well 
as by the addition of healthy brood and bees; and the 
reader may rely upon the Author’s statement, as a fact 
beyond all controversy, that the removal of the original, 
and more particularly if an old queen, and then introducing 
A Vigorous Young Queen,* 
when paralysis is found during the active season—as a 
virgin after seven days, or a fertile queen after fourteen 
days—will ultimately result in a complete cure, where 
supplementary treatment herein recommended, is also 
carried out. 
The Links in the Chain of Disease 
are severed by the period allowed between the lives of 
the older workers, and the renewal of the population by 
the addition of numerous young from the vigorous and 
* The young queen should be either Italian, Carniolan or 
Cyprian, if the latter be crossed with a drone of either of the 
first-named varieties. 
