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European foul brood was reported ten years ago, European foul brood 

 as such. The last report I had from him, a year or two ago, he was 

 still keeping it under control. I met a bee-keeper who had never suc- 

 ceeded with bees before he got it, but he had to either go through or 

 go out, but he went through and he had some golden bees, good workers 

 and he has not entirely gotten rid of it, but he is carrying on. 



Mr. Bishop. — When I first heard of European foul brood, I 

 thought when a bee-keeper got that into his apiary and got it pretty 

 well spread, that he had his apiary ruined and he would never get back 

 where he had previously been, but I find that is a mistake, such as the 

 gentleman here has just stated. European foul brood into an apiary 

 often will make a bee man, whatever he may have been before, it will 

 make a successful man out of him, simply because it will drive him to 

 something he had never done before. I know when I first had something 

 wrong with my bees a number of years ago, I had kept 30 to 60 hives 

 for quite a few years, I noticed that there was something wrong with 

 the brood in quite a number of hives; by reading journals, I thought 

 I must have some foul brood in my apiary, so I wrote to Washington 

 in regard to it and they sent me down a little box for mailing a piece 

 of this brood back to Washington and I filled this little box with brood 

 and fixed it up as they requested and mailed it back to Washington. 

 Then I heard from them and they said that I had European foul 

 brood and it was not long before Mr. Kildow came down there and he 

 was looking around and looked through quite a few colonies and said, 

 " You have European foul brood and it is getting quite a start. " He told 

 me what to do and I went to work and had pretty good success. I 

 had a little left at the end of the season, and next season I go almost 

 rid of it and I have had very little since. That has been a number of 

 year ago. I have found if a fellow keeps his eyes open every time he 

 opens a hive of bees, look at the brood, see that it is pearly white, and 

 you get so accustomed to that, if there is anything wrong, you will 

 catch it and it will not give you very much trouble. That is the ex- 

 perience I have had with the European foul brood. 



Mr. Heinzel. — We have a bulletin printed at Washington, D. C, 

 which gives a good plan that is easily handled to eradicate European 

 foul brood. They have what they call a test yard to treat the disease, 

 the same as they would with the American foul brood and re-queen at 

 the same time and then they stack up their diseased colonies and this 

 brood hatches out. I think that plan will work out very well. I have 

 never tried it myself, but I do not see why it should not work. 



Mr. Kildow.— We tell men how to treat, if they would do what 

 we tell them. So many will not do it. They do things the wrong 

 way, and then they cuss the inspectors the next time they come around 

 because they say they told them wrong. If they would follow the 

 instructiolis we would have very little European foul brood. But 

 they have some way of their own. They do a great deal hke my wife 

 does — sometimes I like to tell a story on her; she will get a receipt, if 

 she is going to make a cake or something, she will not follow it out, but 

 will put in something of her own, then if it is not right, she will blame 

 the receipt. 



Mrs. Kildow. — She will put in honey instead of sugar. 



