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foul-brood in your apiary, euro it by the 

 starvation plan, and do not let any one 

 "fool" you into adopting any other 

 plan ; and if you are a careless, slipshod 

 bee-keeper, get a careful hand to do the 

 work for you, or dump the whole apiary 

 and all its "nxin"s" into a big bonfire, 

 and done with the nuisance. — A. B. 

 Mason. 



1. Yes, a sort of dry dead brood. 2. 

 Foul-bood never disappears until the 

 colony becomes extinct. Where it has 

 only just commenced in a colony, the 

 bees may clean it out of the few cells 

 containing dead pupte, so give a sem- 

 "blanceof its disappearing, but the next 

 season will find it more aggressive than 

 ever. — G. M, Doolittle. 



1. Not thart I know of . 2. Foul-brood 

 is not in the habit of disappearing until 

 it destroys the colony. Take other dis- 

 eases, however, it does not always pre- 

 vail with the same virulence or malig- 

 nancy, so that a colony sometimes tem- 

 porarily recovers only to be again 

 attacked the following Spring. — G. L. 



TiNKEK. 



1. Yes. Chilled brood may somewhat 

 resemble foul-brood. There is also a 

 disease closely resembling foul-brood ex- 

 cept as to virulence and contagiousness. 

 This will sometimes go away of itself. 

 2. Foul-brood is not of the disappearing 

 kind. It may be covered up in Winter, 

 but will be present as long as brood is 

 reared in the infected colony. — J. A. 

 Gkeen. 



1. Yes ; chilled larvse about four or 

 five days old, especially if the cool spell 

 lasts several days, and the bees do not 

 get to remove it right away. But it in 

 no way smells like foul-brood, nor does 

 it act like it when picked with a pin, as 

 foul-brood seems ropy, and chilled brood 

 more rotten, or more easily pulled apart. 

 But the chilled brood flattens down, and 

 ' looks like real foul-brood, if you do not 

 touch it. 2. Jf'ouf-brood will not dis- 

 appear of itself at all, so long as there is 

 material for it to live on. This you will 

 surely find out if you ever have the real 

 malignant foul-brood among your bees. 

 Of course you may cure it by some of 

 the many recipes, but it is a job. — Mrs. 

 Jennie Atchley. 



You will look in vain through the 

 whole catalogue of bee-papers and books 

 to find the season when foul-brood dis- 

 appears. When it has accomplished its 

 work and destroyed all the colonies 

 within reach, is the only time when it 

 may be said to "disappear." — The 

 Editok. 



Topics o[ Interest. 



Tie OMg Stale CoEvention. 



S. R. MORRIS. 



The eighth annual convention of the 

 Ohio State Bee-Keepers' Association was 

 held in West End Turner Hall, Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, on Feb. 10, 11 and 12, 1892. 

 The convention was called to order by 

 President Chas. F. Muth, of Cincinnati, 

 at 11 a.m., on Feb. 10, and the forenoon 

 session was spent in hand shaking, 

 social chat, and getting acquainted with 

 each other. The convention adjourned 

 until 2 p.m. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



After calling to order, the reading of 

 the minutes of the last meeting was 

 done by MissDema Bennett, of Bedford, 

 O., who acted as assistant secretary. 

 After the approval of the minutes, the 

 following question was suggested by Dr. 

 C. C. Miller, of Marengo, Ills.: "What 

 is a bee-space ?" 



The subject was opened by Dr. C. C. 

 Miller, and followed by discussion. The 

 conclusion arrived at was, }4 inch. 



Next came the reading of an essay by 

 Miss Dema Bennett, on "Taking up 

 bee-keeping in a genferal way," and 

 " How to manage the apiary." The 

 essay was full of good hints on the sub- 

 ject, and was ably discussed. 



One of the main topics of the essay, 

 namely, "Cleaning debris out of hives in 

 the Spring," was decided to be a good 

 idea, but should not be done until the 

 weather was sufficiently warm to avoid 

 chilling the brood. 



Another prominent topic was, "Care- 

 lessness in bee-keeping," which was dis- 

 cussed at considerable length, and the 

 conclusion arrived at, that no person 

 should undertake to keep bees who was 

 too careless to give them any attention. 



The consideration of "Winter stores," 

 and " Labeling of honey for market," 

 were also well considered by Miss Ben- 

 nett, and afterwards discussed by the 

 convention. 



Adjourned until 7 p.m. 



EVENING SESSION. 



The first subject for discussion was, 

 "Which is the better for the present 

 bee-keeper, that the number of bee- 

 keepers and honey-producers be in- 

 creased, or diminished ?" 



