TREATMENT: FOR BEE DISEASES. 69 
found none. Two years ago I found the disease both in the sealed 
and unsealed brood, and the question comes up: Have we both dis- 
eases, the European and the American foul brood? I began to hunt 
for another disease attacking sealed brood, and I found it that year; 
but I looked further, and in 65 colonies which I shook off last spring 
you could not find disease in any unsealed brood. Last fall a 
year ago I went to one apiary that had several colonies in which the 
sealed brood was diseased. I told the family what they could do. 
TI said: “ You will either have to fight this disease and take care of 
the colonies through the winter or you can burn them up.” I will 
say they were not bee keepers, and they said just to burn up every- 
thing. I agreed to this, but said that there were two colonies in the 
aplary that had only a few cells diseased, and I would experiment on 
them—that J would take them under my own management. I 
burned the rest, but I kept those two colomies until this spring. This 
spring they became weak and I set one colony on top of the other. 
Last week I went back there, although I had examined them some 
time ago, and they had starved to death. 
One shaking, I am sure, will do under favorable conditions, but if 
the bees are not gathering honey, I would not advise shaking. 
MEDICATION. 
Mr. Dapanr. Has anyone ever tried feeaing medicated sirup? 
The reason I ask the question is because some people succeed with 
drugs. 
Mr. Surrn. Mr. Reynolds was the first man in [lhnois who im- 
ported Italian queens. He said that after foul brood got into his 
bees and destroyed them he heard of a remedy that could be obtained 
at the drug stores, and the next time he transferred his bees he used 
this and he had good luck with them. 
Mr. Dapanr. After shaking them ? 
Mr. Surry. Yes, sir; and he ordered some of this drug from St. 
Louis just a short time ago. He said he was going to feed it to the 
bees next spring for fear they would develop the disease again. 
Mr. Upo Torrrrrwetn (Texas). It is a good idea to feed the bees 
sugar and naphthol beta. 
Mr. Arcutey. As Mr. Scholl has already stated, I don’t believe 
treatment will eradicate foul brood in Texas. I have seen a few 
people that have experimented this season in shaking bees. We have 
never been able to determine results in shaking in one season. I have 
had the disease disappear in the summer and fall and the next year 
the colonies would be diseased again. Another point, in Texas bees 
are too cheap to treat. We can burn them and buy other colonies to 
replace them with less expense. 
