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aged and larger returns made. It is 

 mj- intention if the coming season is at 

 all favorable to increase to something 

 like 600 colonies. 

 Claude, Ontario. 



[Publishing articles like the above 

 may be open to criticism, on the ground 

 that they are exceptional successes, and 

 not the ordinary results obtained. But 

 after all isn't it the exceptional suc- 

 cesses that we are all after? Don't we 

 get our greatest spur to ambition by 

 looking at the highest success obtain- 



al)le? What inducements are there to 

 ])lod along if only ordinary results be 

 secured. 



Then let us have the encouraging re- 

 ports. Discouragements will come fast 

 enough anyway. There are already too 

 many people in this world who are 

 ready to say, with a wise (?) shake of 

 the head. ''Be careful boy, you can't do 

 it." Such people are quite often 

 knocked over by some poor foolish fel- 

 low, because he doesn't know any better, 

 rushing headlong and doing it. Send 

 on your encouraging reports, we all 

 need them.] 



Foul Brood — Its Wholesale Eradication. 



FRED A. PARKER 



'^S X the year 1910 I owned an out- 

 Jl apiary, about fifteen miles from 

 Lompac. It was permeated with 

 American foul brood. Of the fifty- 

 eight colonies thirty were diseased, the 

 brood of many of them being absolutely 

 rotten. The location had proven un- 

 certain for honey production. Its iso- 

 lated position, and the necessary trav- 

 eling of bum mountain roads made it 

 expensive to operate. 



I decided in October to move these 

 bees at once and add them to another 

 apiary I have that was clearly under- 

 stocked. The latter apiary was free 

 from disease. Its colonies possessed 

 plenty of surplus supers and combs con- 

 taining honey. These apiaries were 

 about twenty-two miles apart. 



Some of the combs in the diseased 

 apiary had been in use more than 

 twenty years, and I considered any pro- 

 cess unsatisfactory that did not have 

 for one of its objects the destruction 

 of every one of them. It was the only 

 sure way of making the cure perma- 

 nent. As I also wanted to save the 

 bees, hives and frames, the task before 

 me was no joke. At that season of 

 the year there is no honey gathered in 

 this locality, consequently robbing will 

 begin on slight provocation. 



The hauling was done with a light 

 spring wagon and was completed in 

 four loads. The bees were shaken 

 from their combs into comb honey 

 supers. These supers were prepared 

 by tacking wire cloth over the top of 

 them. 



Before commencing operations each 

 evening, one of these prepared supers 

 was placed near each colony that was 

 to be taken. I waited until dusk had 

 driven the bees all to their homes. By 

 the lantern's light a canvas about six 

 feet square was placed on the ground 

 by the side of the colony first to be 

 treated. The super was placed near 

 the middle of the canvas, the screened 

 side being down. The bees were given 

 plenty of smoke at the entrance and 

 under the cover. If too little smoke 

 be given, the bees crawl all over you 

 on a stinging rampage and fly about the 

 lantern like flies around a sugar bowl. 

 If they are smoked too much they be- 

 come panic-stricken and run out of the 

 hive onto the ground. 



Each comb was taken out and the 

 bees first shaken into the super with 

 the familiar trembling motion. The 

 ones still clinging to the combs were 

 brushed in with a Coggshall brush. The 

 lids, bottom-boards and hives were also 



