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colonies which had been traced robbing from a diseased 

 source ; and this has been quite a general experience. 



I next come to the question of carelessness in handling 

 stocks. During my own experience I found no sign of the 

 disease being permanently cleared off until that " extreme 

 caution " born of repeated disaster and hard experience 

 taught me never to work from any hive to another, 

 whether infected or clean, without disinfecting everything 

 used, including the hands, after each operation. A 

 correspondent bewailing the unfortunate state of his 

 apiary, in the most matter of fact manner states : " Every 

 hive f examined became infected." 



The mixing of combs and appliances may be carried out 

 quite innocently, and often is done, before the apiarist is 

 aware he has the disease. This causes a lot of trouble, 

 and the owner of the apiary begins to think the disease 

 is spreading from one stock to another with a lightning- 

 like rapidity ; when in fact, nothing could be farther from 

 the truth. As in handling without care, so in this case it 

 is simply a matter of infection, by actual contact. 



Feeding with diseased honey is a subject which requires 

 careful consideration. I do not feed with honey, and have 

 always condemned the practice as regards bought honey. 

 One can never feel safe in using such for feeding, and 

 candy offered as partly made with honey should "be rigidly 

 excluded from the apiary. 



The honey found in diseased stocks which are reduced 

 to death's door, is seldom in sufficient quantity to be worth 

 saving, and the combs should be destroyed just as they 

 are in the frames by the one great purifying element — fire. 

 On the other hand stocks not so far reduced may be made 

 to use up their own stores (without daubing the extractor, 

 and a hundred other things) in the manner I have already 

 set forth, and by other means I shall later dilate upon. 



