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SUMMER. 
all the healthy brood (except drones) should be ma- 
tured in that time. By perseverance in these rules, I 
allow no stocks to dwindle away until they are plun- 
dered by others. If all my neighbors were equally 
careful, this disease would probably soon disappear. 
This is like one careless farmer allowing a noxious 
weed to mature seeds, to be wafted by winds on the 
lands of a careful neighbor, who must fortify his mind 
to continual vigilance, or endure the injury of a foul 
pest. So with the successful apiarian; in sections 
where the disease has appeared (it has not in all), he 
must be continually on the watch ; it is the price of 
success. 
CARE IN SELECTING STOCK HIVES FOR WINTER. 
Again, after the breeding season is over, in the fall, 
every stock should be thoroughly inspected , and all diseased 
ones condemned for stock hives. It is better to do it, 
even if it should take the last one. It would pay 
much better to procure others instead, that arc healthy. 
Persons wishing to eat the honey from such hives, 
will experience no bad effects from it, if they are 
careful to remove all the dead brood, as the)' take it 
out of the hive. 
The greatest distance that I ever knew bees to go, 
and plunder a defenceless stock of its contents, was 
three-fourths of a mile. Very likely they would go 
farther on some occasions, but not often. 
ACCUSATIONS NOT ALWAYS RIGHT. 
Careless bee-keepers, when their hives are thus 
robbed, feel regret, or are more often vexed at some- 
