100 DR. miller's 



disease I should not want to use them. But in your case, with 

 the disease all around you, and having already been in your apiary 

 I should not hesitate to use them. The likelihood is that it will 

 be some time before you are entirely rid of European foulbrood, 

 but it will gradually become less troublesome, and will not hin- 

 der you from getting crops of honey. 



Q. You state you will never melt up any more combs on ac- 

 count of European foulbrood. What would you do with combs 

 partly filled with honey, or empty, that were left by a colony that 

 had died with the disease? 



A. Candidly, I must confess I don't know. As you state the 

 case, I can imagine a colony so thoroughly rotten with the disease 

 that it dies outright, leaving combs containing some honey, but 

 most of the cells filled with diseased and dead brood. If I had 

 such a case I should feel a good deal like burning up the whole 

 thing. I'm pretty certain I should if it were the only diseased 

 colony in the apiary. If the disease were spread throughout the 

 apiary, I think I would let such bad combs dry until the dead 

 larvse were drj'. Then, if there was honey in some of the combs 

 that I thought fit for table use, I might extract it. Whether the 

 combs were extracted or not, I might give them in an upper story 

 to some colony having the disease but not wholly affected. In 

 fact, this latter is just what I did, piling the diseased combs four 

 or five stories high — only the combs were not so badly diseased as 

 in the supposed case. 



Even while saying that, with a single case in the apiary so 

 bad as imagined, I should burn up the whole thing, I will stand 

 by my assertion that I will never melt up any combs on account 

 of European foulbrood, because I am very sure I'll never allow a 

 case to get so bad as supposed. 



Foundation (See Comb-Foundation.) 



Frames. — Q. Is there any dift'erence in the size of the Hoffman 

 and Langstroth frames? If so, what are the outside dimensions 

 of each? 



A. Both the same size — 17^x9j^. 



Q. Are the self-spacing Hoft'man brood-frames the best? 



A. If the bee-glue is not troublesome where you are, you will 

 find them excellent. If glue is plenty, they are bad. 



Q. Do the metal-spaced frames give ample room for bees to 

 pass between frames? 



A. Yes, they take up almost no room. 



