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advantages already given of too frequently renewing 
combs; the little value of combs for storing honey, 
for our use, after being once used for breeding ; the 
necessity of the bees using them as long as they 
possibly will answer ; and not compel them to be till- 
ing the hive, when they might be storing honey of the 
purest quality in boxes, &c. 
Vide remarks on this subject on page 30, Chapter II. 
CHAPTER XVII. 
DISEASED BROOD. 
This, like many other chapters in this work, is 
probably new, as I never saw one thus headed. A 
few newspaper discussions are about all that have yet 
appeared on this subject. 
NOT GENERALLY UNDERSTOOD. 
This disease is probably of recent origin. Mr. 
Miner, it appears, knew nothing of it until he moved 
from Long Island to Oneida County, in this State. 
Mr. Weeks, in a communication to the N. E. Farmer, 
says, “ Since the potato rot commenced, I have lost 
one-fourth of my stocks annually, by this disease at 
the same time adds his fears, that “ this race of in- 
sects will become extinct from this cause, if not arrest- 
ed.” (Perhaps I ought to mention, that he speaks of 
it as attacking the “chrysalis” instead of the larva; 
but as every thing else about it agrees exactly, there 
is but little doubt of its being all one thing.) 
