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■new food which is creating such active tissue as bids 

 ■defiance to disease germs. 



Then again, suppose you remove the queen, not 

 because she may perpetuate the disease, but just to give 

 the workers a rest, for there is nothing in any state of life 

 so wearing as the giving of one life for another, in 

 driblets, as it were. After such removal the bees, soon 

 having no nursing to do, turn their attention to cleaning 

 ■out the foul cradles, and [presently everything is so neat 

 that one would never imagine disease had so recently 

 lurked in many of the cells. -j Of course, a queen-cell must 

 be given them, and if this is done during the active season, 

 the improved tone and vigour of the workers is such that 

 the brood nest shortly developed by the action of theyoung 

 queen, is proof against further inroads of the disease. 



Nevertheless, though I have shown that in such cases a 

 rousing activity will always, end in a cure, I do not by 

 aqy means advise such attempts to be made by any but 

 experimentalists, without the free use of Izal, in the 

 manner I have frequently set forth, as success is then 

 •doubly assured. 



Former failures with Cheshire's remedy, and others that 

 have been brought forward from time to time, have 

 resulted largely because this great principle of vitality 

 has not been first raised before the operator started in 

 his attempt to cure. What did Cheshire do ? The stock 

 he operated upon was so nearly depopulated, as well as 

 being queenless, that as a matter of necessity, before he 

 could proceed at all, he added a comb of healthy bees and 

 brood with a new queen. Here then was the real founda- 

 tion of his cure, and without knowing it himself, he was 

 both misleading himself and others who attempted to 

 follow him, inasmuch as he pointed out that Phenol was 

 the cure, and that 'alone. 



