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bees are always white, until some time after they assume 

 the chrysalis form. Therefore if a larvae is found of a dark 

 color, it is dead. Should a dozen or two such be found, 

 the stock should be condemned at once, and all the bees 

 driven into an empty hire. On no consideration put them 

 into empty combs, as they would be likely to keep some 

 of the honey for their brood. If it is desirable to put 

 them in a liive containing comb, they may be transferred to 

 it after they have -been in an empty one long enough to 

 consume all the'honey they have carried with them. (Di- 

 rections giving for driving in Chap, xin.) If honey is 

 scarce at the time, they- should be fed. But if it is discov- 

 ered too late for honey to be collected, it will hardly pay 

 to feed them. 



The honey from the old hive may be used, if the poison 

 is first destroyed. This may be done by scalding. Add a 

 quart of water to about ten pounds of honey, stir it well, heat 

 it to the boiling point, and cat'efully remove all the scum. 



Stocks, in which the disease has not progressed too 

 far, will generally swarm. Three weeks after the first 

 swarm, is the proper time to ejcamine them. I make it a 

 rule to inspect all my stocks at this period. It is easily 

 done, as ahout all the healthy brood, except drones, should 

 he matured in that time. By perseverance in these rules, 

 I allow no stocks to dwindle away until they are plundered 

 by others. 



If all bee-keepers were equally careful this disease 

 would only occasionally be found. This is like a careless 

 farmer, allowing a noxious weed to mature seeds, to be 

 wafted by winds to the lands of a careful neighbor, who 

 must fortify liimself to continual vigilance, or endure a 

 foul pest. So with a successful apiarian, in sections where 

 it has not appeared, he must- be continually on the watch. 

 Vigilance is the price of success. 



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



