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it, the dead larvae will draw out much 

 like spittle or glue. There is then 

 more or less odor peculiar in the dis- 

 ease, like a stale glifepot. 



Sometimes only upon opening the 

 hive of a badly infected colony will it 

 emit much odor; and in other cases 

 you can notice it several feet away. 



I do not think the bees can ever 

 clean out a comb of American foul 

 brood after it is once dried down. 

 There is only one thing to do, and that 

 is to burn it up, or, if many of them, 

 render them into wax; but do not ever 

 render diseased combs with the solar 

 extractor because trouble will exist 

 again if you do. 



Mr. Ahlers — I know what this gen- 

 tleman had; I thought I had a case of 

 foul brood in the south; I found after- 

 wards they were new combs and some 

 of the cells contained pollen and all 

 the balance of the comb was full of 

 brood, and after the brood hatched 

 these combs were placed in the upper 

 story and the bees cleaned out the pol- 

 len and all those cells that had pollen 

 in were white, and the others that had 

 brood in were dark; and that is ex- 

 actly what this gentleman had; he had 

 pollen in some cells and afterwards the 

 bees cleaned it out, and that would 

 give him spotted looking combs. 



Mr. Haan — I do not think there had 

 been any pollen in those combs because 

 I saved a piece of one of them; it was 

 right in the middle of the comb and 

 lower half; it was just where all the 

 foul brood had been. At first it ap- 

 pears only in a cell here and there; I 

 got it out with a knife and burned it 

 up. I was only experimenting but I 

 thought that was all there was to it; 

 but I found afterwards it was not. 



I had to take these combs out and 

 put them in from another diseased 

 colony, had the brood in there hatched 

 out, and then removed the bees after 

 the bees had hatched, and in this way 

 I have a piece of the comb to show any 

 time in the future to anyone who 

 cares to see it; I think it was foul 

 brood in the combs. 



Mr. Kildow — It is very evident to 

 me, and I think to Mr. France, that 

 those cells that showed light were not 

 foul brood scale, because where Ameri- 

 can foul brood scale sinks down it 

 leaves a brown mass that you can see. 

 As to those light cells producing Amer- 

 ican foul brood, I doubt it. 



Mr. Kildow — I wish the bee-keepers 

 in this room would take what neighbor 

 France has said tp heart and keep it 

 there and remember it, and not be like 

 some bee-keeper in the state who wrote 

 to Dr. Miller. He told the Doctor he 

 had read all his writings ever since he 

 commenced to write on foul brood — 

 and asks — "Which is the shortest way 

 to cure foul brood?" 



He had read all about it, and then 

 turned around and asked him that 

 foolish question. 



Remember what Mr. France has told 

 you. He haa told you the truth, right, 

 straight truth, better than I could tell 

 it. 



Mr. Haan — I am the gentleman my- 

 self that wrote that article to Dr. 

 Miller; it is on me. I am not ashamed 

 to admit it because last summer was 

 the first time I ever fell into the foul 

 brood disease, and, while I had read 

 about it considerably, the reading did 

 not take hold on me like it should. I 

 did not know how soon I would get 

 into it so strong. That has been some 

 time ago, the early part of last sum- 

 mer, when I first noticed the disease. I 

 did not kijow but that there might 

 have been ' some short cut, some short 

 way of getting around the McEvoy 

 treatment. Of course I got no' reply 

 from Dr. Miller; I do not blame him 

 either, considering there are so many 

 people in business and asking foolish 

 questions. 



I noticed in Gleanings, afterwards, 

 my letter, and a reply to it, and I felt a 

 great deal better about it. 



Mr. France — I would like to ask if 

 there is any foul brood that you know 

 of within ten miles of your locality. 



Mr. Haan — I understand there is con- 

 siderable around where I am. There 

 was a Bee Inspector from this state 

 who was up there. I live near Des 

 Plaines; and there are quite a few 

 people there who have bees in a small 

 way and they also have plenty of foul 

 brood, I understand. 



Mr. France — American? 



Mr. Haan — I could not say. I can- 

 not distinguish one from the other my- 

 self yet. I may have the one disease; 

 I may have the other or both. I did 

 cut out a piece of comb and send it to 

 Dr. Phillips and he wrotieback and said 

 I had American foul brood. I got it 

 nearly all cleaned up and I expect to 

 clean up some more next spring. 



Mr. Ahlers — I believe jthe gentleman 



