46 Bee-Keeping Simplified for the 
In introducing a queen, be sure that the colony has been 
queenless for twenty-four hours, then place the queen with a 
few attendant workers under a pipe cover cage, Fig. 56, and 
fasten it on to a comb over food by screwing the metal rim at 
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Fie. 55. 
the bottom into the cells. In this way the queen is protected 
from the alien workers by the wire cloth covering until she 
attains the odour of the hive, so that when liberated at the 
end of twenty-four hours she will be accepted, whereas, if not 
caged, she would be killed immediately she was put in. 
XIX.—DISEASES. 
The most important disease is that called “Isle of Wight.” 
Bees so affected soil the alighting board and entrance to the 
hive, and also the inside, with excreta. A number of bees 
will be found creeping on the ground and up the surrounding 
herbage, others collect in small clusters, and all are unable to 
fly. An examination of these will show that in many cases 
the wings are dislocated and the abdomen badly distended. 
There is no known cure, and the colonies generally die off 
very quickly. As the disease spreads rapidly it is advisable to 
destroy the bees at once and burn the combs, bees, quilts, etc., 
in a hole dug in the ground. When all is consumed fill in the 
hole with earth. 
Foul Brood is another disease. When attacked the adult 
bees are listless, and much of the brood will be found dead 
in the cells. Instead of being quite white and curled up like 
the letter C the grubs will he elongated and of a buff colour, 
in its advanced stages the cappings are sunken and have 
