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tered the hive the newspaper should be 

 gathered up and burned. 



In the case of European foulbrood, it 

 is now customary to re-queen the colony 

 at the time the swarm is shaken. It ap- 

 pears that the old queen is able to convey 

 the disease to the new hive. There are 

 various ways of introducing the new 

 queen to the colony after the old one has 

 been killed but this is work that the begin- 

 ner had best leave to the hands of some 

 experienced friend as the bees do not 

 always welcome a new "ruler." 



It will be noticed through this entire 

 process that the object is to get the bees 

 into new quarters and to avoid the chance 

 of any outside bees carrying away any 

 disease-producing honey. Of course the 

 bees carry with them into the new hive all 

 the honey they can hold, but since they 

 are confronted with brood frames con- 

 taining only strips of foundation they are 

 unable to begin rearing any brood for 

 some time. They must first draw out the 



