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all the healthy brood (except drones) should be ma- 

 tured in that time. By perseverance in these rules, I 

 allow no stocks to dwindle away until they axe plun- 

 dered by others. If all my neighbors were equally 

 careful, this disease would ^probably soon disappear. 

 This is like one careless farmer allowing a noxious 

 "weed to mature seeds, to be wafted by winds on the 

 lands of a careful neighbor, who must fortify his mind 

 to continual vigilance, or endure the injury of a foul 

 pest. So with the successful apiarian ; in sections 

 where the disease has appeared (it has not in all), he 

 must be continually on the watch ; it is the price of 

 success. 



CARE IN SELECTING STOCK HIVES FOR WINTER.. 



Again, after the breeding season is over, in the fall, 

 every stock should he thoroughly irbspected, and all diseased 

 ones condemned for stock hives. It is better to do it, 

 even if it should, take the last one. It would pay 

 much better to procure others instead, that are healthy. 



PerscJns wishing to eat the honey from such hives, 

 will experience no bad effects from it, if they are 

 careful to remove all the dead brood, as they take it 

 out of the hive. 



The greatest distance that I ever knew bees to go, 

 and plunder a defenceless stock of its contents, was 

 three-fourths of a mile. Very likely they would go 

 farther on some occasions, but not often. 



ACCUSATIONS NOT ALWAYS RIGHT. 



Careless bee-keepers, when their hives are thus 

 robbed, feel regret, or are more often vexed at some- 



