3o8 MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. [Ch. vi. 



In the year 1848 Pastor Dzierzon lost a large number 

 of stocks from this disease ; he however was enabled to 

 banish it from his apiary, and communicated to a 

 German bee- journal very wholesome advice, which Mr. 

 Langstroth quotes, and from, which we make an extract : 

 " When the malady makes its appearance in only two or 

 three of the colonies, and is discovered early (which may 

 readily be done in hives having movable combs), it can 

 be arrested and cured without damage or diminution of 

 profit. To prevent the disease from spreading in a colony 

 there is no more reliable and efficient process than to stop 

 THE production OF BROOD ; for where no brood exists 

 none can perish or putrefy. The disease is thus deprived 

 both of its aliment and its subjects. The healthy brood 

 will mature and emerge in due time, and the putrid 

 matter remaining in a few cells will dry up, and be 

 removed by the workers. All this will certainly result 

 from a well-timed removal of the queen from such colonies. 

 If such removal becomes necessary in the spring or early 

 part of the summer, a supernumerary queen is thereby 

 obtained, by means of which an artificial colony may be 

 started, which will certainly be healthy if the bees and 

 brood used be taken from healthy colonies. Should the 

 removal be made in the latter part of summer, the use- 

 less production of brood will at once be stopped and an 

 unnecessary consumption of honey prevented. Thus, in 

 either case, we are gainers by the operation." 



In cases where the disease assumes a more malignant 



