. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 15. How to Cure the Foul Brood Disease Among^ Bees. Written Jor the Amer^ayi Bee Journal BY WM. m'evoy. This disease has destroyed hundreds of apiaries at all times, in almost every land where bees have been kept, and it is to-day making its deadly march un- checked through the bee-yards of the world. For 17 years I have warned the bee- keepers to keep all dead and putrid mat- ter out of their colonies, so as not to cause foul brood, and while I have been warning and holding up Death's head and the cross-bones, the professional g
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 15. How to Cure the Foul Brood Disease Among^ Bees. Written Jor the Amer^ayi Bee Journal BY WM. m'evoy. This disease has destroyed hundreds of apiaries at all times, in almost every land where bees have been kept, and it is to-day making its deadly march un- checked through the bee-yards of the world. For 17 years I have warned the bee- keepers to keep all dead and putrid mat- ter out of their colonies, so as not to cause foul brood, and while I have been warning and holding up Death's head and the cross-bones, the professional guessers, who were not practical bee- keepers, have been encouraging the wholesale spread of the disease by say- ing that rotten brood in hives of bees would not cause foul brood. Such teach- ing as that has caused thousands of bee- keepers to be very careless, and when the disease has broken out in their bee- yards, it was left to run its course to the ruin of their apiaries, and all others in the same localities. It is only the very few among many thousands of bee- keepers that have succeeded in curing their apiaries of foul brood after it got a good start in their bee-yards, and the owners left to themselves to manage the curing. I will now give my methods of curing foul brood, which cannot fail when fol- lowed exactly as I order. In the honey season, when the bees are gathering honey freely, remove the combs, and shake the bees back into their own hives in the evening ; give comb foundation starters, and let them build combs for four days. In the even- ing of the fourth day, remove the comb, and give foundation to work out, and then the cure will be complete. Fill an empty two-story hive with the combs of foul brood that have been removed from two or more diseased colonies, close them up for two days, and shade them from the sun ; after that open the entrance, and when most of the brood is hatched, remove those combs, and give the bees starters of foundation in a single hive
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