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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Queries ajid Replies. 



Questions Aloul Foul-BrooJ. 



QuEKY 808. — 1. Is there anything 

 else closely resembling foul-brood ? 2. 

 Will foul-brood disappear of itself as 

 early as July, with the hive still full of 

 brood ? These questions are of much 

 interest to me, as I find nothing in api- 

 arian books or papers stating just at 

 what time in the season foul-brood dis- 

 appears. — Arkansas. 



2. I suspect not. 



1. I do not know. 

 — Eugene Secor, 



1. If there is, I have never seen it. 2. 

 No, sir. — P. H. Elwood. 



I have never seen a case of foul-brood. 

 — J. M. Hambaugh. 



I have never seen foul-brood, or any- 

 thing like it. — Mrs. J. N. Heater. 



1. Yes, chilled brood. 2. No; foul- 

 brood will continue until the apiary is 

 extinct, if allowed. — Dadant & Son. 



I have had no practical experience 

 with foul-brood, but from what I have 

 read I would say "No" to both ques- 

 tions. — S. I. Freeborn. 



1. I do not know of any. 2. I do not 

 think so, but I do not know. I am 

 fortunate in having never seen foul- 

 brood. — M. Mahin. 



I am happy to say that I have never 

 had any experience with foul-brood. If 

 you have it in your apiary, I would ad- 

 vise you to burn all hives infected with 

 it. — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



1. " Yes," there are certain conditions 

 that cause brood to die with many of the 

 characteristics of foul-brood. 2. Foul- 

 brood will not leave you in July, nor 

 any other month. — H. D. Cutting. 



1. I am glad that I can say that I 

 never have had any experience with 

 foul-brood. 2. I never heard of foul- 

 brood disappearing by July, or any other 

 time, without treatment. — E. France. 



1. Not so far as I know. 2. Foul- 

 brood, as a rule, does not disappear 

 from the hive from one year's end to 

 the other. The dead brood is there even 

 when no brood-rearing is going on. — R. 

 L. Taylor. 



1. I think not, but I have had no ex- 

 perience with foul-brood, or anything 

 resembling it. 2. I do not think, unless 



radical measures are adopted, that it 

 will ever disappear during the lifetime 

 of the bees.^ — C. H. Dibbebn. 



1. From the fact that so much has 

 bees said about just how to distinguish 

 foul-brood, it seems pretty certain that 

 other conditions may resemble it. 2. 

 Does it ever disappear if let alone ? — C. 

 C. Miller. 



1. A novice might mistake decompos- 

 ing chilled brood for foul-brood. 2. I 

 do not think that foul-brood will disap- 

 pear at any season of the year, for the 

 germs of it will remain until destroyed. 

 If the hive is fxill of healthy hrood at the 

 time of the disappearance of the dis- 

 ease, it has not been foul-brood — J. P. 

 H. Brown. 



I know nothing of foul-brood by ex- 

 perience. I never saw but one case in 

 a comb on exhibition at a bee-conven- 

 tion, and I backed up and looked at it 

 with a spy-glass. With foul-brood more 

 than anything else, do I believe in tljje 

 adage, "An ounce of prevention is 

 worth a pound of cure." — James Hed- 



DON. 



1. Nothing, absolutely nothing, that 

 I have ever seen. 2. Foul-brood will 

 not disappear at any season of the year ; 

 but as it aifects the immature bees only, 

 it will not show as such, when the cells 

 are all emptied of brood ; although the 

 germs of bacilli remain ready to attack 

 the first brood that is attempted to be 

 reared. — J. E. Pond. 



1. All I know about foul-brood has 

 been gathered by extensive reading. 

 Chilled and starved dead brood at some 

 stages of its decay may resemble foul- 

 brood so as to deceive any one but the 

 expert. 2. It is possible, but I doubt if 

 the genuine disease ever wears out till 

 it destroys the victim, and has nothing 

 left to perpetuate the poison. — G. W. 

 Demaree. 



1. I think not, at least not so near as 

 to be mistaken by one informed. 2. I 

 much doubt it. Do we know that it ever 

 disappears, except that it just kills the 

 colony? and even then it remains to sow 

 seeds of destruction if the seeds are 

 sown, as will likely be the case ; the 

 robber bees being the sowers. — A. J. 

 Cook. 



1. There is such as will deceive the 

 novice. 2. Foul-brood will not dis- 

 appear of itself so long as it has brood 

 to work on. Of course, you do not find 

 anything " in apiarian books or papers 

 stating at what time in the season foul- 

 brood disappears," and you never will in 

 any work that is reliable. If you have 



