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an error, that only occasionally and casually can honey convey it from 

 stock to stock." 



And after giving his reasons at full length, he concludes this 

 part of his subject by saying : 



" Although I would not dogmatise, my strong opinion is, that com- 

 monly neither honey nor pollen carries the disease, but that the feet 

 and antennae of the bees usually do. I also think it probable that, 

 occasionally at least, nurse-bees infected bring the disease germs to- 





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Fig. 122.— B. ALVEI (early stage) 



Fig. 123 B. AIVEI (late stage). 



the mouth in feeding the larvee, and then turning foragers, leave a 

 germ or germs in the nectary of a flower, which, visited by another 

 bee, becomes the means of infection to it ; the malady is thus carried 

 by adult bees into other and perhaps somewhat distant apiaries. 

 Balancing all the probabilities, it would appear that most generally 

 the adult bee takes the disease, and then carries it directly or indirectly 

 to the brood. " 



THE CHESHIRE CURE. 



As to the method of cure, Mr. Cheshire is entirely opposed 

 to the use of salicylic acid and of borax. He considers the 

 spraying does more harm than good ; that any beneficial results 

 from the acid can only be obtained by its use mixed with food ; 

 that even in that way it requires to be used with great discri- 

 mination as to the dose, because salicylic acid is likely to act 

 as a cumulative poison, and that borax, itself a drug nauseous 



