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100 DR. miller'sdisease I should not want to use them. But in your case, withthe disease all around you, and having already been in your apiaryI should not hesitate to use them. The likelihood is that it willbe some time before you are entirely rid of European foulbrood,but it will gradually become less troublesome, and will not hinderyou from getting crops of honey.Q. You state you will never melt up any more combs on accountof European foulbrood. What would you do with combspartly filled with honey, or empty, that were left by a colony thathad died with the disease?A. Candidly, I must confess I don't know. As you state thecase, I can imagine a colony so thoroughly rotten with the diseasethat it dies outright, leaving combs containing some honey, butmost of the cells filled with diseased and dead brood. If I hadsuch a case I should feel a good deal like burning up the wholething. I'm pretty certain I should if it were the only diseasedcolony in the apiary. If the disease were spread throughout theapiary, I think I would let such bad combs dry until the deadlarvse were drj'. Then, if there was honey in some of the combsthat I thought fit for table use, I might extract it. Whether thecombs were extracted or not, I might give them in an upper storyto some colony having the disease but not wholly affected. Infact, this latter is just what I did, piling the diseased combs fouror five stories high—only the combs were not so badly diseased asin the supposed case.Even while saying that, with a single case in the apiary sobad as imagined, I should burn up the whole thing, I will standby my assertion that I will never melt up any combs on accountof European foulbrood, because I am very sure I'll never allow acase to get so bad as supposed.Foundation (See Comb-Foundation.)Frames.—Q. Is there any dift'erence in the size of the Hoffmanand Langstroth frames? If so, what are the outside dimensionsof each?A. Both the same size—17^x9j^.Q. Are the self-spacing Hoft'man brood-frames the best?A. If the bee-glue is not troublesome where you are, you willfind them excellent. If glue is plenty, they are bad.Q. Do the metal-spaced frames give ample room for bees topass between frames?A. Yes, they take up almost no room.