. Sacbrood. Bees. BULLETIN 431, V. S. DEPABTMENT OP AGBICXTLTUKE. As sacbrood has been proved, however, to be a distinct disease aud different from all other disorders, naturally it is incorrect to use the terms "sacbrood" and "pickled brood" synonymously, either in the popular or in the technical sense.^ APPEARANCE OP HEALTHY BROOD AT THE AGE AT WHICH IT DIES OF SACBROOD. By comparing the appearance of healthy brood with that of brood dead of a disease, both the description and the recognition of the symptoms of the disease are often materially aided. Before discuss- ing t
. Sacbrood. Bees. BULLETIN 431, V. S. DEPABTMENT OP AGBICXTLTUKE. As sacbrood has been proved, however, to be a distinct disease aud different from all other disorders, naturally it is incorrect to use the terms "sacbrood" and "pickled brood" synonymously, either in the popular or in the technical sense.^ APPEARANCE OP HEALTHY BROOD AT THE AGE AT WHICH IT DIES OF SACBROOD. By comparing the appearance of healthy brood with that of brood dead of a disease, both the description and the recognition of the symptoms of the disease are often materially aided. Before discuss- ing the symptoms of sacbrood, therefore, a description of the healthy brood- at the age at which it dies of sac- brood will be given. In this description the same method will be used and simi- lar terms employed as will be found in the description of the symptoms of the disease. It will be recalled by those who are at all familiar with healthy comb in which brood is being reared that the brood is arranged in such a way that capped and uncapped areas occur alter- nately and in more or less semicircular fashion. Practically all cells in the un- capped areas will be without caps while practically all in the capped areas will be capped. Since the brood that dies of sac- brood, with but few exceptions, does so in capped cells, a description of such brood involves the form, size, and position of these cefls. A cell (figs. 1 and 2) may be described as having six side walls, a bottom or base, andacap. (The cap has been removed by the bees from the cells from which these figures were drawn.) In general the six side walls are rectangular and equal. These walls form six equal obtuse angles within the cell (fig. 1). The angle which is uppermost in the cell (Aj) is formed by two sides which together may be termed the roof of the cell. The angle which is lowermost (figs. 1 and 2, Aj) is formed by two sides which with equal propriety may together be termed the floor of the ceU (fig. 2, F). When a
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