. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. tm Bfiit-KEfip^RS' kEvimv. ted. This consideration also indicates the extreme care that should be used to pre- vent robbing in a locality where the dis- ease is known to exist as well as the care that must be given to secure from bees the combs and honey taken from dis- eased colonies. Their immediate and complete destruction b}- fire would be the safest course for many to pursue, but the honey and wax are sometimes of con- siderable value, and this extreme course need not be pursued if one is careful and has proper conveniences for disposing of the hone
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. tm Bfiit-KEfip^RS' kEvimv. ted. This consideration also indicates the extreme care that should be used to pre- vent robbing in a locality where the dis- ease is known to exist as well as the care that must be given to secure from bees the combs and honey taken from dis- eased colonies. Their immediate and complete destruction b}- fire would be the safest course for many to pursue, but the honey and wax are sometimes of con- siderable value, and this extreme course need not be pursued if one is careful and has proper conveniences for disposing of the honey and comb. "When there is but little honey in the combs it is best to boil the com1)s at once and .se- cure the wax. If there is honey which it is desired to save, first cut out all parts of the comb containing brood and boil or burn them, then extract the honey which may be used for the table or Ijoiled with one or two parts of water and used as food for the bees. Boil at least fifteen minutes. The comb must then be boil- ed and the wax secured. Or if the hon- ey is only desired to feed the bees the combs, honey and all, may be boiled in just the amount of water necessary and the bee food and wax secured at the same time and with less labor and trouble. It is to be borne in mind ^that all honey from these combs is dangerous for bees iinless it is thoroughly boiled. Not a few I fear will exclaim at my intimation a little ago that foul brood could only come from foul brood germs, and begin to assert that it can come ecpi- ally well from brood that has been chilled to death. In Mrgil's time .swarms of bees were bred from the carcass of an ox; when good Izaak "Walton lived the fish called the pike l)red from pike weed; lately chess grew from wheat and now foul brood grows from something else. ^\'ell, bees, and fish, and chess, have fioTV come to increase normally- and if foul brood has not yet, it very soon will. No, it it still true that men do not gath- er grapes of t
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