. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. a, spores of bacillus alvei; b, c. different forms and stages of growth of the bacillus, as found In the active stage of the disease ; d, penicillium glaucum. common mold found everywhere—it has covered every specimen of foul brood combs when laid away for awhile ; e, sarcina ventriculi often found in the rotten, ropy mass of foul brood ; f, micrococci,undetermined putrefactive forms, found in all dead brood and decaying matter—air germs. other colonies ? If your theory was correct, every larva in a foul colony would have the disease when a foul- broo
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. a, spores of bacillus alvei; b, c. different forms and stages of growth of the bacillus, as found In the active stage of the disease ; d, penicillium glaucum. common mold found everywhere—it has covered every specimen of foul brood combs when laid away for awhile ; e, sarcina ventriculi often found in the rotten, ropy mass of foul brood ; f, micrococci,undetermined putrefactive forms, found in all dead brood and decaying matter—air germs. other colonies ? If your theory was correct, every larva in a foul colony would have the disease when a foul- broody colony got in such a state with the disease that the bees could fan the germs out at the entrance ! Every bee-keeper in the world that has ever had any experience with foul brood knows that there is always some sound larva in foul-broody colonies in the breeding season, until the foul colo- nies are almost dead from the disease. I cannot spare the time to go to Michi- gan and treat a foul-brood colony by my methods of curing foul brood, but I will, in June, put a very foul-broody colony in charge of Mr. Gemmill and Prof. Mac- kenzie to cure by my methods, in the same old hive, without having the old hive disinfected in any way. So Mr. Graden can send his $100 to Mr. Emigh, of Holbrook, Ont., to hold, and I will put up my money as soon as his is up. I will also furnish a hive filled with foul brood combs with honey in, and have them placed a few rods from a sound colony, and then set the sound colony to rob the foul combs of the dis- eased, on a wager of $100 that the sound colony gets foul brood from them. I will place this test case in the hands of Prof. Mackenzie and Mr. Gemmill. Mr. Graden can " put up " on this also— half of all the " stakes" to go to Father Laugstroth. I have found hundreds of colonies so rotten with foul brood that the stench from them in hot weather was many times almost unbearable, and several times it was. Many of these com
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