. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Foul Brood—Its Symptoms and Cure. BY N. K. FRANCE. FOUL brood is a contag^ious and fatal disease, dreaded most of all by bee-keepers, as the disease kills the bee ill the larval age, usuallj' from live to nine days from the egfg: of the queen-bee. The honey or combs from an in- fected colony contain the germs of disease, and, if left where bees can g'et to them, will be sure to spread the dis- ease. Never buy or use old combs, hives, bees, queen-bees or implements from any apiary unless you are certain they are from healthy bees. Often have I traced t
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Foul Brood—Its Symptoms and Cure. BY N. K. FRANCE. FOUL brood is a contag^ious and fatal disease, dreaded most of all by bee-keepers, as the disease kills the bee ill the larval age, usuallj' from live to nine days from the egfg: of the queen-bee. The honey or combs from an in- fected colony contain the germs of disease, and, if left where bees can g'et to them, will be sure to spread the dis- ease. Never buy or use old combs, hives, bees, queen-bees or implements from any apiary unless you are certain they are from healthy bees. Often have I traced the spread of the disease to such carelessness. SYMPTOMS OF FOUI, BROOD. 1. Colony or swarm of bees appear weak tect the hive-entrance. 2. A part of the brood is dead, the cappings sunken and of a darker color. Ragged holes soon appear in the cap- pings. 3. At first the bee shows . brown streaks, changing to a shapeless mass on the lower side of the cell, in color much like a cup of coffee when milk is added. At this stage it will be sticky or ropy, and if punct- ured with a stick will draw out much like warm glue. 4. There is a peculiar smell to foul brood in its ad- vanced stage, much like old glue when heated. In many cases I have seen the odor was easily noticed several rods away. 5. Old. diseased combs will have some cells-with the sunken cappings, underneath which there will be in some this brown, ropy substance ; others will show it dried down to a black bunch at the front end of the cell, and still many other cells will have this dried down to a very thin scale, hardly noticeable. But in all these stages it will stick fast to the lower side-wall. Please do not pro- examine closely the accompanying picture of a diseased comb, containing all these stages described, taken from a large apiary where every colony had died with the disease. OF FOUL BROOD. 1. The best time to cure foul brood is during the honey- gathering season ; but. with great care and feeding, i
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