Coleene,
I caution you!

Suppose the auction had lots of hive bodies for sale at $3 each  How do you
know
that they are clear of AFB spores imbedded in the wood?  You would just be
introducing AFB into your apiary.

Maryland can fumigate hive parts with ethylene oxide.  Massachusetts can
radiate
hive parts with cobalt irradiation.  ALL the other states ONLY burn hive
parts to
kill AFB spores.

Aren't you aware that TERRAMYCIN does not kill AFB spores, but only those
disease
"germs" in the first 54 hours of the vegetative state.  In 1922, 82 years
ago, my
mentor, Dr. James I.Hambleton, Chief Apiculturist of the U.S. put a hive body
away
at the Beltsville Bee Lab that was infected with AFB spores.  Each year for
the
past 82 years, they culture samples of wood from that hive body, and active
AFB
is still present.

Just trying to be helpful.

George Imirie
Certified Master Beekeeper

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