. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June, 1914. 201 American l^ee Jonrnal. Fig. -Two common bumblebees. 2. Bombus impatiens; Bombus americanorum; <;. female, ^, worker, female, i. male. (See next page.) try made at any time referring in any way to the disease was marked with red. That made it easy to tell at a glance whether any colony was affected, and what pertained to the disease with- out having to read over the whole record. HOW EUROPEAN FOULBROOD WAS TREATED. June 2 and June 10 were the dates on which nearly all the cases were treated. The treatment was simple. As the cases wer
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June, 1914. 201 American l^ee Jonrnal. Fig. -Two common bumblebees. 2. Bombus impatiens; Bombus americanorum; <;. female, ^, worker, female, i. male. (See next page.) try made at any time referring in any way to the disease was marked with red. That made it easy to tell at a glance whether any colony was affected, and what pertained to the disease with- out having to read over the whole record. HOW EUROPEAN FOULBROOD WAS TREATED. June 2 and June 10 were the dates on which nearly all the cases were treated. The treatment was simple. As the cases were mild and the queens good, there was no need to destroy or re- move any of the queens. (In very bad cases it is better to destroy the queen. Not that the queen herself has the dis- ease, but she has become poor, perhaps because oE having lived in such a bad atmosphere. In mild cases she is not affected.) In all but a few cases the queen was caged in the hive for 8 or 10 days, and then fed. That's all there was of the treatment; just stopping the queen from laying for 8 or 10 days. Possibly a week would be long enough, but I wanted to be on the safe side. In the remaining cases the queen was allowed to remain without being caged. In four cases, in the middle of the day or alittle earlier, all the brood and adhering bees were quietly re- moved (and put elsewhere in an upper story over an excluder), clean brood from elsewhere was given to the queen, allowing the returning field-bees to care for the brood. That was all the treatment they received. The nurse- bees had been quietly removed so tliey would not be made to fly and return to the hive, the field-bees had no foul food for the babies, and could get none from the clean brood, so there was nothing to continue the disease. This plan allowed the queen to con- tinue laying, but taking away all the younger bees stood over against that, and caging the queen is less trouble. In two cases the treatment was simp- ler than the last gi
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