68 MEETING OF INSPECTORS OF APIARIES. 
who is here from the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Bryan, 
Tex., working for Professor Conradi, has been conducting experi- 
ments on this shaking treatment, and you might get him to tell you 
something about it. 
Mr. Ernest Scnorn (Texas). Iam glad to be called upon, because 
T have been paying close attention to the shaking treatment, and as 
soon as Mr. J. Q. Smith mentioned his method of shaking but once, 
I thought surely he is dealing with different conditions or it must 
have been an accident that he succeeded. My work has been mostly 
in the northern part of the State, but in one case I had some work in 
the central part. I thought I would try some experiments. We 
tried shaking once, but it would not work; the disease appeared just 
as badly as ever. We tried shaking twice; that worked better, so 
that shows that shaking once does not work here. I have tried many 
other expériments, and am still on the go, but this is the only point I 
want to bring out. Shaking once is not sucessful in Texas, and I don’t 
think it ever will be. I don’t see how Mr. Smith can be successful 
in treating, because the bees gorge themselves with honey. Down 
here, as soon as you open a hive the bees will run to the cells and. 
consequently, shaking once would not work; and, as my brother said, 
there is always some honey taken up and the bees carry it into the new 
hive. 
Mr. Juneau. Mr. Smith’s plan is satisfactory in Colorado. We 
shake our bees there, but we smoke them a little bit and we shake only 
when a honey flow is on. The honey will sometimes drip on the 
wings of the bees, but it is very seldom that foul brood starts again. 
I have been an inspector there for a number of years, and the general . 
way 1s to shake the bees hard. We shake them a little bit differ- 
ently. We put paper down and we shake when the honey flow is on 
and we save nearly all the brood—that is, the healthy brood—and let 
it stay twenty-one days. The reason for letting it stay so long is be- 
cause there is honey around and the bees hatching out will use it. 
Not only do the inspectors instruct that shaking be practiced, but the 
State association has issued pamphlets, in which this treatment is 
explained, to be given by the inspector to each man who has foul 
brood. 
Mr. D. C. Miram (Uvalde County, Tex.). In our locality we are 
governed by conditions. If the conditions are not favorable for 
shaking, we burn the bees, frames, and all. If the conditions are 
favorable, shaking is all right. Last May I shook five colonies in 
one apiary for experiment, and week before last I went there and 
they were all right, but honey was not coming in fast. 
I wish to speak of another thing. In this apiary I watched espe- 
cially to see if there was any disease of the unsealed brood and I 
