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ADVANCED BEE CULTURE. 



stand in the apiary, and the entrance opened sufficiently to allow the 

 passage of a single bee. So much trouble as this is not advisable 

 unless the queen is very valuable. 



And now, in closing, a word of caution: When buying a queen 

 from a distance, let out the bees and queen upon a window; catch the 

 queen and put her into a clean cage; then kill all of the bees and 

 throw them and the mailing cage into the stove. This is to guard 

 against any possible chance of getting foul brood into the apiary 

 from infected bees or honey. A queen has never been known to 

 carry the contagion from one colony to the other — the only danger 

 is that the food in the cage might have been made with honey 

 infected with the germs of disease. Of course, the danger is very 

 slight, even in this direction, but foul brood has been known to have 

 been communicated in this manner, and there is no harm in exer- 

 cising caution. 



