. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. mm. 7^ f ^51 \ i ^a ^? SmM (Entered as second-class matter July 30, 19C7, at the Poat-Offlce at Chicago, III., under Act ot March 3, 1879.) Published Monthly at $ a Year, by George W. York & Company, 117 North JeKerson Street, GEORGE W. YORK. Editor DR. C. C. MILLER. Associate Editor. CHICAGO, ILL, SEPTEMBER, 1911 Vol. LI-No. 9 Editorial Comments European Foul Brood in 1911 In the season of 1911, European foul brood showed itself in 41 colonies of my 116. I have no means of knowing how many cases were a home product, and how many were from dis
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. mm. 7^ f ^51 \ i ^a ^? SmM (Entered as second-class matter July 30, 19C7, at the Poat-Offlce at Chicago, III., under Act ot March 3, 1879.) Published Monthly at $ a Year, by George W. York & Company, 117 North JeKerson Street, GEORGE W. YORK. Editor DR. C. C. MILLER. Associate Editor. CHICAGO, ILL, SEPTEMBER, 1911 Vol. LI-No. 9 Editorial Comments European Foul Brood in 1911 In the season of 1911, European foul brood showed itself in 41 colonies of my 116. I have no means of knowing how many cases were a home product, and how many were from diseased colonies around me. There were no very bad cases. In most of them there were only a few bad cells—perhaps only a cell or two. In the worst case there was probably not 10 percent of the brood aflfected. All colonies were very strong, and I expected the disease to disappear in those colonies that were least affected. But it did not do so, except in one case. Perhaps that was because of the very severe dearth, as the summer of 1911 was one of the worst for drouth and dearth of honey that I ever experi- enced. In spite of that the colonies were very strong, so that I had no anxiety about doubling or strengthen- ing, for a very important part of the treatment for European foul brood is to make very strong each colony to be treated. No use to try to do anything with a poor, little, discouraged colony. The queens did not appear affected as in previous years. That was prob- ably because the cases were not very bad. In a bad case the queen appears sluggish, and not worth saving. Likely she is not really diseased by the foul- brood microbe, but living in such sur- roundings her general health suffers. At any rate, it did not seem necessary to replace the queens, and so, with few exceptions the queens were caged and left with the colony, generally with the cage stuck in the entrance. In a week to 12 flays—generally in 10 days—the queen was released, and 10 days later the colon
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