. Gleanings in bee culture . sgiven them except a natural how of 1 shows an Italian colony in my homeapiary, one of three that never haci Euro-pean foul brood, although it raged in thisa])iary for three years. At one time 160 col-onies* were badly affected. The (jueen ofthis colony, at the time the ])icture wastaken, was seven years old. and a grand-daughter of the A. I. Root red-clover(|ueen that was so renowned for honey-gath-ering i)ropensities. Fig. No. 2 is one of herframes of l^rood. She was superseded somethree weeks later. Figs. ^ and 4 show oneof the hives and a frame
. Gleanings in bee culture . sgiven them except a natural how of 1 shows an Italian colony in my homeapiary, one of three that never haci Euro-pean foul brood, although it raged in thisa])iary for three years. At one time 160 col-onies* were badly affected. The (jueen ofthis colony, at the time the ])icture wastaken, was seven years old. and a grand-daughter of the A. I. Root red-clover(|ueen that was so renowned for honey-gath-ering i)ropensities. Fig. No. 2 is one of herframes of l^rood. She was superseded somethree weeks later. Figs. ^ and 4 show oneof the hives and a frame of brood that theEuroi)ean foxil brood first appeared in, in thespring of 1905. This hive was one of four-teen that were i)urchased in the fall of 1904,and the only one I have holding this styleof frame, the combs of which I should judgeto be 1 wenty-five or thirty years old. I havekei)l this liive and combs to show to visi-tors, and prove that European foul broodcan be cured to stay cured, icithout destroy- June 1, 1911 33J. Fis. 1.—An Italian colony tliat remained an apiaiy where there were IGU colonies diseased iii(j the combs. About May 1. 190o, thishive contained a colony of black bees, andabout ninety per cent of the cells hail deadlarvcP in one stage or another. About thistime the (|ueen was killed. Ten days latera ripe Italian queen-cell was given, and indue time I had hatching l)roo<l which ajvpeared healthy; but as the (jueen tilled tliecombs with eggs the second time I found anoccasional dead larva. On furtiier examin-ation I found about for-ty colonies that hadbeen treated in the samemanner, still showingthe disease. I at onceshook the majority ofthose forty colony in Fig. 3was so reduced in num-bers that they were notworth shaking; never-theless, the queen wasremoved, and, later,having a choice (jueen-cell, and no jjlace to useit, I gave it to this smallcolony, which now wasmostly Italian from thefirst queen given: andas the second y
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