. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1895. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 139 in a short time, and end the season with every colony in grand condition, while some that had only a few colonies would be so careless and indifferent about the curing, and would not do as I told them, and then I resorted to stamping the disease out by fire, for the public good. The very wet weather that set in all over the Province in the last half of May and forepart of June was a serious thing as it came at a time when the hives were full of bees and brood, and completely stopped all honey-gathering then. With th
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1895. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 139 in a short time, and end the season with every colony in grand condition, while some that had only a few colonies would be so careless and indifferent about the curing, and would not do as I told them, and then I resorted to stamping the disease out by fire, for the public good. The very wet weather that set in all over the Province in the last half of May and forepart of June was a serious thing as it came at a time when the hives were full of bees and brood, and completely stopped all honey-gathering then. With the honey-flow so suddenly shut off, the bees soon used up all the unsealed honey, and then they did not uncap the sealed stores fast euough to keep pace with the very large quantity of larVcB that required so much feeding, the result being a good deal of starved brood, which was left in the cells to decay. Then when the bee-keepers found the starved brood in a decaying state in their colonies, many of them became greatly alarmed and believed that foul brood was breaking out in their apiaries. Soon after that, I received many letters from bee-keepers in Ontario and the United States, describing a kind of dead brood that the writers found in their colonies, and wanting to know if it was foul brood. In several cases it was starved brood, and in many others it was the genuine foul brood. This confused state of things with the constitution of so many colonies going wrong, made the bee-keepers very anxious to have their apiaries examined. After that, I was wanted in many places; I rushed through every locality as fast as I could, and kept pretty well up with the work. 1 burned one colony in Oxford county that was almost dead with foul brood, and nine in the county of Halton—four at one apiary and five in another. The owners of both apiaries were very willing that I should destroy the few diseased colonies, and helped me do the burning. I burned three foul-broody colonies in Wellingt
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