70 MEETING OF INSPECTORS OF APIARIES. 
PICKLE BROOD. 
Mr. Suir. Is there anyone present whose bees have been suffering 
from pickle brood ? 
Mr. Dapanvr. Mine have, and I used oil of eucalyptus. I thought 
IT had foul brood and I afterwards discovered that it was pickle 
brood. About every four days I fed some oil of eucalyptus and in 
three weeks there was no trace of the disease. 
Doctor Puiiures. Would not that disease have disappeared without 
the use of drugs? 
Mr. Dapantv. I doubt it. I asked another bee keeper to try the 
same thing and the result was the same. 
Doctor Puitiurs. We have no proof that pickle brood is at all 
infectious. Oil of eucalyptus is a disinfectant; therefore I was won- 
dering what effect it had. 
Mr. Horexamre. One of the members of the Missouri State Bee 
Keepers’ Association, who was about 20 miles from St. Louis, asked 
me to come over and help with his bees. He said last spring that his 
bees were in a terrible condition; he was very busy and did not know 
what to do. A good many of the colonies were in bad condition. He 
put a tablespoonful of carbolic acid in a quart of water and sprinkled 
his bees with this. He told me they were all well except two colonies. 
He said he did not look at them. I looked at them and they were 
clean. He told me that he had colonies that had gathered in five 
days a super full of honey. He had about 10 square miles of Spanish 
heather, but these colonies that had been affected did not make any 
surplus, so there must have been some disease. 
Doctor Puiuurrs. It might have been pickle brood. Pickle brood 
is sometimes pretty bad, but it will disappear. 
EXPENSE OF TREATMENT. 
Doctor Pumures. Is it so expensive to treat bees? How much does 
the colony lose by shaking during the honey flow ? 
Mr. Anprrson. We lose a honey crop. Take all that brood away 
from a colony and all that remains is the live bees. For ten days 
there is no brood started to take the place of what has been removed. 
Mr. Junzav. It is altogether different in our country (Colorado). 
We shake bees, and they act just like a new swarm. I have had as 
high as two or three swarms from those that have been shaken, if 
they were ordinarily good strong colonies, and I believe it will do 
just as well to shake a colony during a honey flow as any time. It 
makes no difference. 
Doctor Puinums. That is the point I was about to mention. I 
know that in Colorado they sometimes shake bees whether there is 
disease or not, because they claim the bees do better. You talk about 
