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I let it remain until' long enough 

 to be hatched; to satisfy the owner, 

 the treatment was not a success. 



We may credit McEvoy, of Canada, 

 for introducing the practical method 

 of treatment for American foul brood. 



The principle involved is to get the 

 bees away from the infection and to 

 be careful and get the infection where 

 they never will get to it. 



A word of caution: Don't buy 

 honey from unknown sources to feed 

 your bees. I believe the largest bee- 

 keeper in your state inoculated his 

 yard with American foul brood by 

 feeding honey that had come from 

 outside the state. 



I know of- another case where 

 American foul brood combs had been 

 sent to a supply house to be ren- 

 dered into wax and the bees con- 

 tracted the disease at the receiving 

 station. 



If you have infected combs and 

 want to render them into wax; send 

 the wax to your supply man to be 

 Tirade into comb foundation but don't 

 send the refuse in any way to injure 

 others. 



I think your state law will prac- 

 tically forbid that. 



I wish it were possible, and I came 

 near making it possible in our state 

 two years ago, that the salv^ of second 

 hand honey cans would be prohibited; 

 can which come from infected terri- 

 tory and are liable to be thrown 

 premiscuously outdoors where any- 

 body's bees have free access to same. 



Less than a month ago I said to a 

 bee-keeper: A man at the hotel says 

 that your bees swarm every day and 

 stay over there about an hour and a 

 half and go home. You had better go 

 over there; and he came over. I said: 

 "I want to show you something in the 

 back lot. During the noon hour, 

 while the bees had their best flight,- 

 they come over here into this back 

 yard and have taken possession until 

 the ladies from the house are afraid 

 to go back there to throw out their 

 waste because your bees are here in 

 great numbers and are going into 

 these tin cans." 



Here are 52 tin cans right here; all 

 but one with the screw top off and the 

 bees helping themselves. Fortunately 

 it was a lot of maple syrup cans, but 

 it would have been the same had it 

 been honey. 



President France — Is there any one 



who wants to bring out anything 

 further on the subject of American 

 foul brood? 



A member — If honey is merely 

 heated, will that carry disease? 



President France — Unless it is 

 heated to the boiling point and kept 

 at that point for about 15 minutes. 



A member — Half an hour would be 

 safer. 



President France — After you have 

 boiled that honey for 15 minutes, who 

 wants it? 



Mr. Bruner — Three minutes is long 

 enough. 



Dr. Phillips — Minimum time is ten 

 minutes. 



Mr. Wheeler — What is it good for 

 after it is boiled? 



Mr. Stewart — Good for feed. 



Mr. Brinkerhoff — Don't you think 

 there ought to be some stress made on 

 the early symptoms of the disease? I 

 doubt if you will get an odor in the 

 early stages of the disease; surely it 

 will not have the scaly appearance in 

 the early stages. 



Mr. Bull — In regard to the early 

 symptoms: The symptoms are always 

 the same. I think he means to treat 

 the colony before it is badly diseased; 

 there is no difference whether there are 

 three or 3,000 cells; the symptoms will 

 be the same. The idea is to see those 

 cells before they get too thick. 



The quickest way is to go to a colony 

 near the center of the brood chamber 

 and take a comb of brood that is hatch- 

 ing bees, say commenced to hatch four 

 or five days or a week before he looked 

 at it; so the center in the comb will 

 be hatched out and re-flUed with eggs. 



If you find a cell in that batch you 

 have looked over, you had better look 

 out. 



Mr. Kildow — One great trouble with 

 our bee-keepers is they do not look at 

 the brood; they think a colony is com- 

 ig round all right; they ought to ex- 

 amine their brood; that is where you 

 will find this stuff. 



Open your hive when the weather is 

 all right and pick it up and examine 

 it; don't say, "that is all right" and 

 pass on. 



That is where you miss out so often. 

 Examine that thoroughly and carefully. 

 As far as the smelling is concerned, you 



