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only the coming or second generation is destroyed. A 
large number of patent moth-traps are constructed, 
which only answer the same purpose, while the litter of 
the hive, and with it the brood of the moth, should be 
under the control of the bee-keeper ; this is effected in 
the Champion hive, in a cheap and simple manner, by 
offering to the moth-miller a crevice filled with the lit- 
ter of the hive at the very entrance. This moth- 
groove must be cleaned once a week, or it may become 
a moth-nursery instead of a moth-destroyer. lake a 
piece of lath, eighteen inches long, and thick enough 
to fit the groove, and push it through the groove once 
a week ; by it, all the litter of the hive, moth, brood 
and other filth is removed. Should want of time or 
inclination prevent the bee-keeper from performing this 
operation regularly, the moth-groove should be filled 
with a piece of lath ; the inclined bottom will then 
conduct all litter from the hive, and if strong stocks 
only, — each having a fertile queen,— are kept, the moth 
produces no serious mischief. The moth-worms make 
their appearance during the month of April, and a 
second generation in August; during these months 
more attention should be paid to their destruction than 
at any other time. 
Large apiaries are less troubled with moth than small 
ones, their depredations being divided among the large 
number of colonies. A large number of moth-millers 
may be drowned by setting well-sweetened water, mixed 
