. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 498 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL-. colonies were so bad with foul brood that he failed to cure them by putting them on starters, foundation, or giving them a partial starvation before he gave them foundation. At last he resorted to almost starving the bees to death before putting them on foundation, and then succeeded in curing. After that Mr. Jones became an advocate of a thorough starvation of the bees before putting them on foundation. Where colonies are not bad with foul brood, and there is little or no unsealed honey in the brood-combs, they can be cured
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 498 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL-. colonies were so bad with foul brood that he failed to cure them by putting them on starters, foundation, or giving them a partial starvation before he gave them foundation. At last he resorted to almost starving the bees to death before putting them on foundation, and then succeeded in curing. After that Mr. Jones became an advocate of a thorough starvation of the bees before putting them on foundation. Where colonies are not bad with foul brood, and there is little or no unsealed honey in the brood-combs, they can be cured at once by removing the diseased combs and giving them full sheets of comb foundation. I don't remember ever finding one foul-broody apiary in all my experience where every colony could be cured by 'putting the bees on foundation at once in the time of a honey- flow. If all the hundreds of hives that I have handled in my time, that once had foul brood in, had been boiled or scalded, what a lot of valuable wood would have been burned, time wasted, and much curing delayed through time taken up in boiling and fussing with empty hives, at a busy season when work of all kinds was pressing. But the worst of all would have been—the most of this sort of work would have fallen on the women, the ones least able to bear it. I linew that the empty hives that foul brood had been in, never did give the dis- ease, and could not cause it. Knowing all this, I thought it would be a very un- just thing in me not to warn against the boiling of hives as a waste of time. REPLY TO MR. GRADEN'S CRITICISMS. In the American Bee Journal for Jan. 11, 1894, page 51, I read a long article from Mr. Randolph Graden, of Taylor Centre, Mich. Mr. Graden says he has " evidence which proves beyond a doubt that bees in robbing a foul- broody colony do not carry the disease to their hives in ; Mr. Graden is very much mistaken in supposing that bees can rob a foul-broody colony of its honey and not
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