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Now I would like to know why that thing has not had the attention 

 that it seems to me it deserves. Do any of you know any objection 

 to it? I would rather hear you talk about it, if there is any objection 

 to it. What have you Canadian fellows against it? 



Mr. Krause. — Nothing whatever, only I would just like to 

 add one little thing, if you just put an empty comb by the side of those 

 full combs when you put them in there and then take it out the next 

 day you have got a complete cure, there is no danger whatever. 



Mr. Leonard. — Mr. Chairman, that is the system that I have 

 practiced myself this year, and I think if a bee-keeper looks to the 

 strength of his colony, contracts the entrance and sees that the colony 

 is strong so that there can be no robbing at any time during the summer, 

 that that is the very best system of treating foul brood that there is. 

 But there is that one difficulty of possibly leaving that all summer with 

 foul brood in and other bees in some way getting at that honey, rob- 

 bing it oi^t. That is the only thing I see against it. I watched myself 

 all summer and I saw that those bees were strong in those colonies that 

 had foul brood, and then I did just exactly what you have said. 



Dr. Miller. — That is a legitimate objection, only there is this 

 point to it, a wide-awake bee-keeper will find the disease in his hive 

 before they are at that stage when there will be any great deal of danger 

 of getting out into the others. 



A Member. — That is where we fall down. 



Dr. Miller. — Well, there are in the different states men who 

 are making these things known. Now, as to that matter of putting 

 a comb in for them to put their honey in and then taking away that, 

 I don't see any objection to that except the trouble of it, but I don't 

 see any use in it. Do you know then when you have taken a colony 

 and given it the frames of honey, do you know that the disease has 

 got in afterwards without that empty frame? 



Mr. Krause. — It is so hard to get combs of honey that are 

 absolutely solid. You will find empty cells up in the top corners, 

 and very often they will store honey in those top corners and seal it 



Dr. Mfller. — You don't understand my point. I am raising the 

 question whether there is any objection to the room in there, if they 

 have enough honey there to last them through. My idea is that you 

 are not afraid of the honey being in there. 



Mr. Krause. — They will put the honey in those corner cells and 

 seal it. 



Dr. Miller.— No, they won't seal it. At any rate, that pla|i 

 has succeeded. There is no loss of brood, there is no loss of bees by 

 it. Now I remember — here is another thing. I remember Dr. Phillips 

 was in my place one time and I said to him: "Dr. Phillips, there is a 

 colony that has American foul brood, and I have given it an upper 

 story of its own honey; What will happen?" "Oh, it will have the 

 disease next year," he said. It did not. I had one other the same 

 way, and that did not have it. That is the reason Dr. Phillips is down 

 on me. (Laughter.) 



