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fourths of an inch wide, and five inches long ; taper one 

 side three inches from tlie end, to a point, then gi-ind each 

 edge sharp, make three or four holes through the wide 



Fig. 31. — TOOL, ron killiko wobms. 



end, to admit small nails through it in the handle, which 

 should be about two feet long, and half an inch square. 

 Armed with this you can proceed. 



HOW DESTROYED. 



Raise the hive on one edge, and with the point of your 

 sword you may pick a worm out of the closest corner, and 

 easily scrape all from under the hive. M^ sicre and dis- 

 patch every one ; not that the " little victiin " will per- 

 sonally do much more mischief, but it is to be apprehended 

 through its descendants. Very likely half of all you find 

 will have finished their course of destruction among the 

 combs, and voluntarily left them for a place to spin their 

 cocoons. They are worried, if bees are numerous, until 

 satisfied that there is no safe place among them to make a 

 shroud and remain helpless for two or three weeks.. Ac- 

 cordingly, when they get their growth, they leave and 

 get on the bottom board. They will be chilled and help- 

 less in the morning, but active in the middle of the day. If 

 they are merely thrown on the earth, a place wilt be 

 selected there for transformation, if no better is found, and 

 a moth perfected ten feet from the hive, is just as capable 

 of depositing five hundred eggs there, as if she had never 

 left it. 



Several generations are matured in the course of one 

 summer ; consequently, one destroyed at this season, may 

 prevent the existence of thousands before the summer is 

 over. 



The moth-worm is one of the many subjects connected 



