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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 antennz 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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the mouth in feeding the larve, and then turning foragers, leave a 
germ or germs in the nectary otf 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 
