. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. eepeps' |\e\^ie(jo. A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to tlqe Interests of Hoqey Producers. $L00 A YEAR. ¥. z. HOTCHINSON, Editor and ProDiletor. VOL, IX, FLINT, MICHIGAN, JUNE 10. 1896. NO. 6. A\^ork at IVTicliigaTi's Experimental B. li. TAYIiOB, APIARIST. DEALING WITH FOUL BROOD. TT is coming to 1 be more and more important apparently that a thorough knowl- edge of the dis- ease called foul brood and of the steps necessary to exterminate it should be dissem- inated among those who keep bees, for it seems to have a foothold in many wildly separated po
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. eepeps' |\e\^ie(jo. A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to tlqe Interests of Hoqey Producers. $L00 A YEAR. ¥. z. HOTCHINSON, Editor and ProDiletor. VOL, IX, FLINT, MICHIGAN, JUNE 10. 1896. NO. 6. A\^ork at IVTicliigaTi's Experimental B. li. TAYIiOB, APIARIST. DEALING WITH FOUL BROOD. TT is coming to 1 be more and more important apparently that a thorough knowl- edge of the dis- ease called foul brood and of the steps necessary to exterminate it should be dissem- inated among those who keep bees, for it seems to have a foothold in many wildly separated portions of the state, and it must always be terri'^ly destructive when it is not dealt with intelligently ; so a record of my experience with it during the past year will have its value. For the purpose of study and experimen- tation I have aimed, latterly, to keep a col- ony or two having the disease, but last sum- mer the disease broke out afresh, making the number of diseased colonies uncomfort- ably large : there being now eleven colonies which underwent treatment, not to speak of others that first or last were united with. one or another of these. The cause of this marked reappearance, as I think, was owing to the fact that on account of the dearth of nectar during June and July, the bees en- croached on their old* st stores, even to their almost entire consumption, more or less of which had been in their hives for years and contained, in a quiescent state, the germs of the disease. These colonie? were treated according to the plan described in my report of two years ago, by driving or shaking the bees into a clean hive furnished with foundation. The majority of the colouits were so treated at the beginning of honey gathering from fall flowers, the rest two to three weeks later, when the honey flow was nearly over. The decided advantage of treating diseased colonies when there is a considerable flow of nectar was clearly seen by an in- spection of these two lots of bees af
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