1907. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 125 



"AMERICAN" AND "EUROPEAN" ing I won't waste words. The inspec- 



FOUL BROOD ^°'^^ ^^ ^''- ^"tonio believed the best 



'cure' in bad cases was destruction by 



Mr. D. M. Macdonald, BaflE, Scot- tire! I have repeatedly in the past, 



land, is the author of the following and now again repeat, that in such 



criticism, in British Bee Journal: circumstances curing by killing is the 



" 'It will be noted that we have only safe and sure course to follow." 



started the use of the names Euro- 



pean and American foul brood,* says HAND-PICKED DRONES. 



the editor of Gleanings. As earnestly ^^^ so-called new method of hand- 

 and emphatically as I can I enter my pj^king drones for queen fertilization 

 protest against so misguided and er- „^^y j^^j^ ^^^^^ .^^ ^^-^^^^ ^^^ j should 

 roneous a procedure. Coin names as ij^e to ask who did the "hand- 

 you please, Mr. Root, but let them picking" a few decades back, when 

 at least have a measure of common bee-keepers produced as large and 

 sense to justify their being perpetrat- weighty supers as are seen to- 

 ed. Let the editor of Gleanings turn day? For myself, I attach far less 

 back a page, and see what intolerable value to the golden color of the ab- 

 confuson would arise from the use of domen in the bees bred by "fad- 

 these terms if they get established, ^^^ts" for beauty than I do to the 

 So able a bee-keeper as Mr. Alex- ^""^'SY displayed by the bee in the 

 , / ^^^N „,. ■„t. ,,„„ gathermg in of the honey-crop. — W. 

 ander (on page 167) gets mto a per- ° Ji • -d •.• v t, t 1 

 , * • : , -J . .1 Woodley, m British Bee Journal. 

 feet tangle m trying to elucidate the 



matter. 'Another point of difference 



is, a larva affected with American foul ^^ Vermont losing her sweetness? 



brood seldom dies until about old There is a falling off in both her 



1.1 A ^^ ^ u ;<■ maple sugar and her honey crops this 



enough to be capped over, or after it ^ =" . 



, , ^, , , ., 1 year. — Boston Transcript. 



IS capped by the bees, while a larva ^ 



dying from the effect of European 



foul brood seldom lives to be capped The American Bee-Keeper 

 over." That last statement is a cari- Three Full Years ?i.oo. To New 

 cature of the European disease, while Subscribers, Three Full Years 

 the first clause exactly describes it. for Ninety Cents. Is that Cheap 

 Again; 'I know honey with American Knough ? 



foul brood is diseased; with European 



I have my doubts.' ! Why, our scien- 

 tists have demonstrated this again and 

 again! Bee-keepers here have no 

 'doubts,' because they have proof po- 

 sitive that from hives affected with 

 Bacillus alvei honey is tainted. 'It is 

 very easy to cure an apiary of Euro- 

 pean F. B., but the American F. B. 

 is incurable.' I wish some American 

 bee-keeper would only try his hand 

 with some of our worst type. On 

 simpletons who write about curing a 

 genuine bad case by simply re-queen- 



WANTED 



The American Bee-Keeper wants 

 an agent in every city, town and 

 village of every English-speaking 

 country in the world. To our rep- 

 resentatives everywhere we pay 

 cash for available matter for pub- 

 lication, and liberal cash commis- 

 sions on all subscribers secured. 



AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 

 Falconer, N. Y. 



