American Bee Journal 



EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL WAGNER, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



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Vol. V. 



INOVEMiBER, l^OO. 



No. 5, 



The Lambrecht Foulbrood Cure. 



In the Bee Journal for August we mentioa- 

 ecl that the final report of tlie committee ap- 

 pointed to test Mr. Lambreclit's ability to cause 

 and cui'e foulbrood, had not then reached us, 

 though we understood it had been made. We 

 have since received it ; and as we know that 

 many of our readers feel a deep interest in this 

 matter, and as every apiary is liable to be inva- 

 ded by the devastiug malady, we subjoin a 

 trauslation of the four certificates issued by the 

 committee, showing how their proceedings were 

 conducted, and stating as the result of the test 

 that, in a healthy colony of bees, the disease 

 had been produced and then cured, by the means 

 employed by Mr. Lambrecht. 



The colony for experiment was selected from 

 the apiary of Mr. Gravenhorst, thoroughly ex- 

 amined by the committee, pronounced to be in a 

 healthy condition, and then submitted to Mr. 

 Lambrecht for treatment. This appears from 



Certificate No. 1. 



Brunswick, April 1, 1869, 

 The undersigned hereby certify that the col- 

 ony of bees placed at our disposal by C. J. 

 Gravenhorst, in one of his own hives, was found 

 on examination to be in a healthy state, in good 

 condition, populous, and with brood in all 

 stages. After this examination was made, A. 

 Lambrecht inserted, near the brood, a comb 

 containing fermenting pollen and honey. The 

 hive was then placed in the care of Mr. Graven- 

 horst, with the privilege of placing it half a 

 league distant from his own apiary. 



(Signed.) C. J. H. Gravenhorst, 



H. Herbst, 

 Henry Opperman, 

 H. Wiedenroth. 



When the committee again met and examined 

 the colony, opinions were divided as to the 

 existence of foulbrood in it, and the decision 

 was therefore postponed for a month, to await 

 the further development of the virus, if it ex- 



isted; or the effect produced by the additional 

 fermenting pollen inserted by Mr. Lambiecht, 

 as shown by 



Certificate No. 2. 



Brunswick, April 24, 1869. 

 This day the above-named committee, accom- 

 panied by Mr. Lambrecht, repaired to the place 

 where the experimental hive stood, and on ex- 

 amining the colony, regarded it as being only 

 in an incipient stage of foulbrood. Though 

 some dead and Pome suspicious-looking pupae 

 were observed, the committee was divided in 

 opinion respecting the existence of foulbrood. 

 This induced Mr. Lambrecht to insert a second 

 portion of fermenting pollen and honey, and to 

 desire permission to insert also two frames with 

 old combs; which Mr. Gravenhorst was com- 

 missioned to do. 



Signed by the Committee. 



On a re-examination of the colony at the next 

 meeting of the committee, all doubt as to its 

 foulbroody condition appears to have baen dis- 

 sipated. It was evidently suffering from the 

 disease in a highly aggravated degree ; and the 

 committee so state in their 



Certificate No. 3. 



Brunswick, May 23, 1869. 

 This day the undersigned re-examined the 

 experimental colony. In the two old combs 

 inserted on the 2d of May, they found cells with 

 perforated and also with unperforated collapsed 

 caps; and from these, when opened, a viscid, 

 fetid, brownish-grey matter could be drawn ; 

 and the committee were fully convinced of the 

 existence of foulbrood — especially as putrid 

 larvae were also found in the newly built drone 

 comb. 



Signed by the Committee. 



The experimental hive thus found to be infect- 

 ed with the disease, was now turned over to 

 Mr. Lambrecht for restorative treatment ; and 

 on the 27th of July the committee re-assembled, 

 to ascertain the result of Mr. Lambrecht's cura - 



