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In one of his talks Dr. Caron mentioned that there is a better chance for
survival of brood in older combs than there is in new comb. He did say that
it wasn’t much of a difference but that it could be shown statistically.

I think you could also find people saying that it is preferrable to get rid
of old combs because they may retain disease factors such as spores or
viruses.

I wrote last week of buying 15 colonies this spring from a beekeeper who had
not treated the bees this year. The brood combs were all black and old. By
late summer they had many mites and by fall the strong ones had only a few
handfulls of bees left.

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