FIFTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART VIII. 539 



DISCUSSION ON EXPERIENCES WITH AMERICAN FOUL BROOD. 



J. W. STINE, STOCKPORT, IOWA. 



I scarcely knew what was expected of me, whether I was to speak on 

 my experience with American Foul Brood or whether the discussion was 

 to be a question box. If the latter should be the desire of the convention 

 we have present, men of authority to help answer your questions. 



In our experiences in handling bees we find "knowledge is power." Es- 

 pecially is this true in any of the bee diseases. It is with the diseases of 

 bees like an old colored aunty told a noted preacher who was denying the 

 existence of the Holy Spirit. She said to him, "Dere isn't any as you 



J. W. Stine, Director, and Mrs. Stine. 



knows of." So with bee diseases, some will say my bees are perfectly 

 healthy, never have had any disease. All I ever had to die either froze 

 to death or the m.oth killed them out. These excuses for bees dying are 

 quite familiar to the inspector. Had the owner of the bees known what 

 was the matter with them in time he would not only have saved the dis- 

 eased ones but have saved other healthy ones which would turn in and 

 rob the diseased bees of their honey. 



One of the best ways of preventing the spread of disease is that at all 

 times as far as possible keep all colonies from the tendency to rob. I be- 

 lieve the feeding of bees outside and away from the hives should be 

 avoided. I was in one locality last spring where a man had lost all his bees 



