. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. hatched brood in the capped cells were smothered. For two weeks I devoted every spare hour (and more) to the straightening up of combs and cleaning out hives and several sympathizing friends lent me their helping hands, picking the dead out of the cells, etc. The dead larva? became putrid, and I was alarmed at the bad odor when opening a hive. Several colonies, unable to bear the stench, swarmed out. I hived them again, gave them new combs, in clean hives, contracted the space to suit the. colo- nies, fed them up, and when winter com- menced, every co
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. hatched brood in the capped cells were smothered. For two weeks I devoted every spare hour (and more) to the straightening up of combs and cleaning out hives and several sympathizing friends lent me their helping hands, picking the dead out of the cells, etc. The dead larva? became putrid, and I was alarmed at the bad odor when opening a hive. Several colonies, unable to bear the stench, swarmed out. I hived them again, gave them new combs, in clean hives, contracted the space to suit the. colo- nies, fed them up, and when winter com- menced, every colony was in good condi- tion. Every comb was cleaned out by the bees (i. e. the cleaning finished) and no foul- brood anywhere. About four years ago. however, in the fall, I bought a*few colonies of bees from a neighbor who himself had bought them from a party in Kentucky. I had noticed nothing wrong, but the next spring one of them was foul-broody and before I was aware of it, several more colonies were afflicted. 1 knew the disease from its description in the Ger- man Bee Journal, and I knew also the discovery of Dr. Schoenfeld, that foul-brood was of vegetable growth and destroyed by Salicylic acid, which was harmless to ani- mal life, and even the tender larvse of a bee, if properly applied. I knew furthermore the discovery of Mr. Emil Hilbert (one of our most enthusiastic and energetic German bee-keepers), and the manner of application. It consisted of 50 grammes of crystal salicylic acid. 400 grammes of pure spirits. One drop of this mixture added to 1 gramme of distilled water was the propor- tion and ready for application. It had to be applied lukewarm in order to keep the acid dissolved. Pure spirits was used to dissolve the Salicylic acid, and while the latter is harmless to animal life, an overdose of the former will kill the larvae. My druggist, therefore, made up for me the following solution, which is essentially the same as the above, but entirely harmless to lar
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