. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. editorial ^ofes and Comments. Blumler in Treating European Foul Brood In Gleanings for 190-"), where E. W. Alexander first gave to the public his treatment-for European foul brood, he directs as follows: "Go to every diseased colony you have and build it up either by giving frames of maturing brood or uniting two or more until you have them fairly strong. After this, go over every one and remove the queen; then in 0 days go over them again, and be sure to destroy every maturing queen-cell, or virgin if any have hatched. Then go to your breed
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. editorial ^ofes and Comments. Blumler in Treating European Foul Brood In Gleanings for 190-"), where E. W. Alexander first gave to the public his treatment-for European foul brood, he directs as follows: "Go to every diseased colony you have and build it up either by giving frames of maturing brood or uniting two or more until you have them fairly strong. After this, go over every one and remove the queen; then in 0 days go over them again, and be sure to destroy every maturing queen-cell, or virgin if any have hatched. Then go to your breed- ing-queen and take enough of her newly- hatched larv« to rear enough queen-cells from to supply each one of your diseased queenless colonies with a ripe queen-ceil or virgin just hatched. Those are to be intro- duced to your diseased colonies on the 20th day after you have removed their old queen. and not one hour sooner, for upon this very point your whole success depends; for your young queen must not commence to lay until 3 or 4 days after the last of the old brood is hatched, or 27 days from the time you re- move the old ; Dr. Miller comments on the fore- going thus, from his own e-xperience : Four years later, when I came to tr>- the cure, instead of going back and looking up carefully just what Mr. Alexander had said, I made the inexcusably stupid blunder of understanding that it was a laving instead of A virgin nween. So with no thought of de- parting materially from the Alexander treat- ment, I introduced a virgin 10 days after re- moving the queen, with the idea that she would begin laying at about the time I un- derstood that Mr. Alexander gave a laying queen. The strange part of it is that no one called my attention to the blunder until late in January, loio. While I offer my humblest apologies for thus blundering, and for misrepresenting Mr. Alexanders treatment, I may be allowed to say that, after all. the blunder is hardiv regrettable, upon the wh
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