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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
on a card, placed the card over the frames. The bees 
came up, and seemed to see in her a new hope. The 
cage was lifted, and she was welcomed immediately- 
I waited three days, till she was regularly laying^ 
giving syrup phenolated i in 500; and now, since 
I could not create bees, added two combs of brood. 
This step was made necessary by the fact that I 
required a strong hive by the time of the Congress. 
The bees w'ere now shut up by a division-board ; but 
the combs put behind it, waiting introduction as the 
bees multiplied, smelt so badly — the weather being 
hot — that I several times sprayed them with water 
200, phenol I. Now I should compress the bees as 
much as possible, and spray the removed combs 
freely with water 50, phenol i. To return. Every 
evening the medicated syrup was given, by pouring 
around the brood-nest; but only so much as would 
be likely to be used, the object not being to fill the 
cells, but to get the food converted into bees. The 
smell vanished, the bees became active and earnest. 
The comb with 371 dead larvae on one side was 
last added, and in six days I could only find five 
sunken caps in the whole of it. Now and again a 
grub took the disease, but quickly perfect immunity 
was the issue. No cell was uncapped, no diseased 
grub removed, nor the hive touched, except as de- 
scribed. The bees cleaned their floor and their combs ; 
while, in four weeks and two or three days, every 
frame became filled with brood in the brightest 
and best possible condition. Since this, worse cases 
have succumbed in the same fashion. Abundant 
corroboration has been eiven from those w’ho have 
