. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April 23, 1903. THE AMERFCAN BEE JOURNAL. 261. Chicago-Northwestern Convention. Report of the Chicag-o-Northwestern Bee-Keep- ers' Convention, held in Chicago. Dec. 3 and 4, 1902. BY OUR OWN SHORTHAND REPORTER. (Continued from page 245.) FOUL BROOD—ITS CAUSE AND CURE. A Member—That larva that lies down against the side of the cell, is that after the cell is capped ? Mr. France—It has probably been capped ; it is begin- ning to have this sunken appearance, and about to begin that perforation in there ? A Member—Then you can not detect foul brood in cel
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April 23, 1903. THE AMERFCAN BEE JOURNAL. 261. Chicago-Northwestern Convention. Report of the Chicag-o-Northwestern Bee-Keep- ers' Convention, held in Chicago. Dec. 3 and 4, 1902. BY OUR OWN SHORTHAND REPORTER. (Continued from page 245.) FOUL BROOD—ITS CAUSE AND CURE. A Member—That larva that lies down against the side of the cell, is that after the cell is capped ? Mr. France—It has probably been capped ; it is begin- ning to have this sunken appearance, and about to begin that perforation in there ? A Member—Then you can not detect foul brood in cells that have never been capped ? Mr. France—I should usually say no, unless you have been schooling yourself on this, and looking for it before hand. A Member—Would the introduction of the queen from a foul-broody colony received through the mails introduce foul brood ? Mr. France—Well, I am not a queen-breeder, nor don't want to affect any one's market. I will say yes and no ; no, providing you take that queen-bee and introduce her in a clean cage and destroy the cage that she came in. Right on that point: In the largest county of our State we had a peculiar case. There were some 40 odd hives, new that sea- son from a supply house, that had never had bees in them; he had put his new swarms in them ; the old queens were not desirable ones ; he sent to one of our distant cities for some queens—five of them—and introduced them iu the cages they came in. After a time he wrote me that there was something wrong in those hives, and so remarkable ^n instance was it, that it was every other all in one row, it excited my curiosity. How could it be so, and what was the cause ? No other bees in the vicinity were diseased. Why should these be, and in that peculiar way ? Finally I learned that these five queens had been introduced in those same hives ; then I said, " You put it there. Where did you get your queens?" He told me, and I said, " That apiary is d
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