io6 A Modem Bee-Farm 



secured i2olbs. of sealed section honey from the Conqueror 

 hive, and some 79olbs. of comb honey in all, from eleven 

 hives during the poor season of 1902, had his bees badly 

 diseased some two or three years previously. He followed 

 my directions implicitly, and to-day is using the same 

 combs in a perfectly healthy state, which at that time were 

 seriously diseased. His recent large yield, consequently, 

 is the more wonderful, and his own graphic statement of 

 the serious difficulties he had to contend with, should be 

 an object lesson to all who are inclined to lose hope when, 

 the enemy overtakes them. 



Cures by Izal Without Destroying Combs. 



This is his narrative. "I shall always feel thankful to 

 you for your kindness in the matter of foul brood. I had 

 a great worry with it, and yet much of that could have been 

 avoided if only my neighbours had all been united in the 

 endeavour to stamp it out. But, no ! They each had 

 skeps and bar-frame-hives, and well knew what was the 

 matter with their bees ; but they would not go to a little 

 expense and labour to be rid of the disease. So their 

 bees died out, and there they let them stand just as they 

 died, and would neither put their hives away nor destroy 

 them." 



What a contrast was here. On one side letharg)', 

 despair, and finally ruin ! And the other — energy, deter- 

 mination, ultimate victory ! Aye ! and more, a double 

 victory, for not only was the disease in his own apiary 

 conquered without destroying the combs, but the terribly 

 ruinous, selfish actions of his neighbours were also over- 

 come by the steady, dogged perseverance of the man who 

 allowed nothing to daunt him. 



Dear reader, this, is a grand example; and need you 

 ever sit down in despair, when perhaps you have a wider 



