DESTRUCTION OF WORMS. 
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HOW FOUND. 
In the morning, when cool, raise the hive, and you 
will find them on the board. You must not suppose 
that these chaps are bred outside the hive, got their 
growth, and are now on their way among the bees, 
but the reverse. They are bred in the hive, and most 
of them are on the way out, and this is the precise 
time to arrest them and bring them to justice for their 
crimes. 
A TOOL FOR THEIR DESTRUCTION. 
I have used a simple tool, made in a few minutes, 
and very convenient in this business. Any one can 
make it. Get a piece of narrow hoop-iron, (steel 
would be better,) three-fourth inch wide, five inches 
long ; taper from one side three inches from the end 
to a point; then grind each edge sharp; make three 
or four holes through the wide end, to admit small 
nails through it in the handle, which should be about 
two feet long and about half an inch square. Armed 
with this weapon, you can proceed. Eaise the hive 
on one edge, and with the point of your sword you 
may pick a worm out of the closest corner, and easily 
scrape all from under the hive with it. Now, be sure 
and dispatch every one; not that the “ little victim” will 
itself, personally, do much more mischief; but through 
its descendants the mischief is to be apprehended. 
Very likely half of all you find will have finished 
their course of destruction, among the combs, and 
have voluntarily left them fora place to spin ’their 
cocoons. They are worried by the bees, if they are 
