. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Marcli, IU09. j[ American ^Bec Journal. Report of the Xi-w Jersey Conven- tion. The annual meeting of the New Jer- sey Bee-Keepers' Association was held in the State House, Trenton, Jan. 9, 1909. Promptly at 10 a. m., President VVm. W. Case called the meeting to or- der, and gave the opening address. He expressed himself as pleased with the increased attendance. His address was mainly on the prevalence of foul brood in New Jersey, of his method of treat- ing it, and of the need of a foul brood law for New Jersey. The disease is known to be scattered m
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Marcli, IU09. j[ American ^Bec Journal. Report of the Xi-w Jersey Conven- tion. The annual meeting of the New Jer- sey Bee-Keepers' Association was held in the State House, Trenton, Jan. 9, 1909. Promptly at 10 a. m., President VVm. W. Case called the meeting to or- der, and gave the opening address. He expressed himself as pleased with the increased attendance. His address was mainly on the prevalence of foul brood in New Jersey, of his method of treat- ing it, and of the need of a foul brood law for New Jersey. The disease is known to be scattered more or less throughout the State, and seems to be rather on the increase in the southern counties of the State. Mr. Case's meth- od of treatment, in brief, is as follows: FOUL BROOD TREATMENT. Build up the colony as fast as possible in the spring—feed if necessary. Do not give surplus room. Allow them to swarm naturally, or, better yet, shake when strong enough at the beginning or during the flow. Hive or put the forced swarm on the old stand, and move the parent colony to a distant part of the yard. Use full sheets of comb founda- tion, or starters, as is your custom. In 3 weeks treat the parent colony moved to the distant stand, the same way. Ap- ply treatment late in the day, to avoid scattering the bees. There is one rule that must be strictly observed, and that is, that the newly hived sw'arm must be left strictly alone at least 5 days, or better still, a week. After 5 days or a week, it may be treated in all respects as a colony free from disease, surplus room given, and so on. This method of one shaking is based on the theory that all diseased honey in the honey-stomachs of the bees is di- gested and converted into wax in a week's time; but that if the hive is opened or molested in any way before the expiration of a week, the bees will even up the honey among themselves, and will then store some of the diseased honey. This method has proved suc- cessful if faithfully a
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