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brood exists, none can perish or putrefy. The disease 

 is thus deprived both of its aliment and its subjects. 

 The healthy brood will mature and emerge in due time, 

 and the putrid matter remaining in a few cells will dry 

 up and be removed by the workers. All this will cer- 

 tainly result from a welUtimed removal of the queen from 

 such colonies. If such removal becomes necessary in 

 the spring or early part of the summer, a supernumerary 

 queen is thereby obtained, by means of which an artificial 

 colony may be started, which will certainly be healthy if 

 the bees and brood used be taken from healthy colonies. 

 Should the removal be made in the latter part of summer, 

 the useless production of brood will at once be stopped 

 and an unnecessary consumption of honey prevented. 

 Thus, in either case, we are gainers by the operation." 



In cases where the disease assumes a more malignant 

 character — in other words, "has got ahead," through 

 "not being nipped in the bud," — it will be well to take 

 notice of another quotation from Mr. Langstroth's book : 

 —"In the spring or summer, when the weather is fine 

 and pasturage abounds, the following cure is recom- 

 mended by a German apiarian : — 'Drive out the bees 

 into any clean, hive, and shut them up in a dark place 

 vrithout food for twenty-four hours ; prepare for them a 

 clean hive, properly fitted up with comb from healtky 

 colonies ; transfer the bees into it, and confine them two 

 days longer, feeding them with pure honey.' " 



Mr. Woodbury's apiary was severely attacked by this 



