266 SUMMER. 



advantages already given of too frequently renewing 

 combs ; the little value of combs for storing boney, 

 for our Mse, after being once used for breeding ; the 

 necessity of the bees using them as long as they 

 possibly will answer ; and not compel them to be -fill- 

 ing the hive, when they might be storing honey of the 

 purest quality in boxes, &c. 



Vide remarks on this subject on page 80, Chapter 11. 



CHAPTER XYII. 



DISEASED BEOOD. 



This, like many other chapters in this work, is 

 probably new, as I never saw one thus headed. A 

 few newspaper discussions are about all that have yet 

 appeared on this subject. 



NOT GENERALLY UNDERSTOOD. 



. This disease is probably of recent origin. Mr. 

 Miner, it appears, knew nothing of it until he. moved 

 from Long Island to Oneida County, in this State. 

 Mr. Weeks, in a communication to the N.-E.. Farmer, 

 says, " Since the potato rot commenced, I have Ipst 

 one-fourth of my stocks annually, by this disease ;" at 

 the same time adds his fears, that " this; race of in- 

 sects will become extinct from this cause, if not arrest- 

 ed." (Perhaps I ought to mention, that he speaks of 

 it as attacking the "chrysalis" instead of the larva; 

 but as every thing else about it agrees exactly, there 

 is but little doubt of its being all one thing.) 



