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in mind that one little "forget" may compel a repetition of the whole 

 business. 



Of late, the bee-keepers in some parts of Colorado have been fol- 

 lowing; a plan whereby a man may keep his apiary fairly free from 

 foul brood, even though located in a foul broody district. It is well- 

 known that shaking the bees of a foul broody colony into a clean 

 hive, and allowing them to build a new set of combs, frees them from 

 the infection; well, these Western men, just at swarming-time, treat 

 every colony in the apiary in this manner — make a wholesale sweep 

 of the matter. As this is done at a season when the honey flow has 

 commenced, and there will be no more robbing until the season is 

 over, the apiary remains free of the disease for that season. It is 

 simply forced swarming on a wholesale scale. The old hives are 

 given new locations, and perhaps the combs of two or more colonies 

 are put together upon one stand. Perhaps it ought to be mentioned 

 that the combs are not shaken entirely free of bees, some being left 

 to care for the unsealed brood; and caution is exercised that the 

 work be not done too early in the season when there would be danger 

 of chilled brood or from robbers. At the end of three weeks, the 

 brood has all hatched, when the combs are shaken entirely free of 

 bees, the latter, of course, going back into the hives and building 

 new combs, thus establishing colonies that are free from the disease. 

 The honey is then extracted from the old combs, and the latter 

 rendered into wax. It is asserted that the wax will pay for the 

 labor, while the new combs are built (// a profit. I believe that this 

 plan can be successfully followed in the East as in the West; 

 although, of course, the Western harvest is much longer than ours. 



RAVAGES OF THE BEE MOTH'S LARVAE. 



