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The economic value of the bee-farming industry is now recognized 

 in all progressive countries, and is receiving encouragement m some 

 form in most of them. The knowledge of losses sustained m the past 

 through disease, which to a large extent is preventable and curable 



Fig. 52. — Comb infected with Foul-brood (Bacillus larv^) in an Advanced 



Stage. 



in its early stages, has caused an energetic movement, based- ""on 

 legislation, for stamping it out, or, at all events, for bringing it under 

 control. 



