. Loss from foul brood and poor management. Bees. PREVENTIVE MEASURES. It is easier to use precautions than to combat the disease after it has entered a district. If the following measures were followed, the dis- ease would be less likely to spread: 1. Do not feed bees honey the source of which you do not know. 2. Transfer all queens received through the mail to clean cages, and destroy the old ones, candy and all, including the bees accompanying the queens. 3. Do not move colonies from one place to another without thorough inspection. It is against the law, if disease exists in the vicinity,
. Loss from foul brood and poor management. Bees. PREVENTIVE MEASURES. It is easier to use precautions than to combat the disease after it has entered a district. If the following measures were followed, the dis- ease would be less likely to spread: 1. Do not feed bees honey the source of which you do not know. 2. Transfer all queens received through the mail to clean cages, and destroy the old ones, candy and all, including the bees accompanying the queens. 3. Do not move colonies from one place to another without thorough inspection. It is against the law, if disease exists in the vicinity, unless a permit is issued from the state entomologist. 4. Contract the entrance to all weak hives, and inspect all colonies not doing well, as soon as found. 5. The purchase of second-hand combs and supplies is dangerous, unless they are known to come from healthy districts. 6. Do not put honey from diseased colonies on the Fig. 4.—American foul brood; a, b, f, normal sealed cells, c, j, sunlcen cap- pings, showing perforations; g, sunken capping not perforated; h, 1, m, n, q, r, larvae affected by disease; e, i, p, s. scales formed from dried-down larvae; d, o, pupae affected by disease. Three times natural size.—For the use of this cut courtesy is due the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. American foul brood is known to exist in the following counties in this state: Adams, Garfield, Montrose, Arapahoe, Douglas, Otero, Bent, Jefferson, Prowers, Boulder, La Plata, Pueblo, Delta, Larimer, Weld. Denver, Mesa, Fremont, Montezuma,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Foster, Wesley. Fort Collins, Colo
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