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the weather is such as might chill the brood upon 
exposure during the operation, some temporary recep- 
tacle must be provided to afford it a shelter. 
For hives without frames the bees must be driven 
out as soon as the weather is warm -nough (“ about 
the timo when gooseberry-trees come into leaf’’); 
then the solution must be passed over the combs as 
completely as possible with the spray-producer. The 
bees are now returned, and left to swarm; when, 
after about twenty days, those in the old hive are 
transferred to another, the combs destroyed, and the 
hive, if worth the trouble, disinfected. 
For the carrying out of this last operation, both 
with hives and apparatus, the following are the 
directions given: Thoroughly cleanse, and then 
place them in boiling water (if too large, set them 
over a boiler, and pour the water continually over 
them with a ladle); scrape, scrub with a brush, and 
rinse again with boiling water; set in the sun or 
wind to dry, and then disinfect by painting them 
with the solution, or dipping therein, as the case 
may be. 
It will at once have been noticed that the direc- 
tions with regard to skep hives involve leaving the 
bees and hive only half cured for a considerable 
period; and as half cured means uncured, one would 
think that by far the wiser plan would be to recur 
to the old stamping-out régime, instead of leaving 
the colony to be a source of even partial danger to 
all its neighbours. Indeed, so difficult is the problem 
in the best of cases, that Mr. Cheshire writes to us, 
“T have succeeded in curing it, but the process re- 
