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disease I should not want to use them. But in your case, with 
the disease all around you, and having already been in your apiary 
I should not hesitate to use them. The likelihood is that it will 
be some time before you are entirely rid of European foulbrood, 
but it will gradually become less troublesome, and will not hin- 
der you from getting crops of honey. 
Q. You state you will never melt up any more combs on ac- 
count of European foulbrood. What would you do with combs 
partly filled with honey, or empty, that were left by a colony that 
had died with the disease? 
A. Candidly, I must confess I don’t know. As you state the 
case, I can imagine a colony so thoroughly rotten with the disease 
that it dies outright, leaving combs containing some honey, but 
most of the cells filled with diseased and dead brood. If I had 
such a case I should feel a good deal like burning up the whole 
thing. I’m pretty certain I should if it were the only diseased 
colony in the apiary. If the disease were spread throughout the 
apiary, I think I would let such bad combs dry until the dead 
larvae were dry. Then, if there was honey in some of the combs 
that I thought fit for table use, I might extract it. Whether the 
combs were extracted or not, I might give them in an upper story 
to some colony having the disease but not wholly affected. In 
fact, this latter is just what I did, piling the diseased combs four 
or five stories high— only the combs were not so badly diseased as 
in the supposed case. 
Even while saying that, with a single case in the apiary so 
bad as imagined, I should burn up the whole thing, I will stand 
by my assertion that I will never melt up any combs on account 
of European foulbrood, because I am very sure I’ll never allow a 
case to get so bad as supposed. 
Foundation (See Comb-Foundation.) 
Frame*. — Q. Is there any difference in the size of the Hoffman 
and Langstroth frames? If so, what are the outside dimensions 
of each? 
A. Both the same size — 1 7^x9j4- 
Q. Are the self-spacing Hoffman brood-frames the best? 
A. If the bee-glue is not troublesome where you are, you will 
find them excellent. If glue is plenty, they are bad. 
Q. Do the metal-spaced frames give ample room for bees to 
pass between frames? 
A. Yes, they take up almost no room. 
