THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



Put a tablespoonful of carbolic acid 

 in a quart of water. Now if tlie 

 foul brood is discovered at its pri- 

 mary stage, that is, if only a few 

 colonies show the well known and 

 often-described sigijs of the disease, 

 all that is needed is to wash the 

 bottom board of the hive with a 

 wet brush with this mixture, and, 

 as the carbolic acid evaporates, 

 the bees and combs are disinfected. 

 But at the same time, an inward 

 application must be resorted to by 

 feeding the colonies for several 

 evenings with liquid food, which is 

 prepared as follows : To every 

 quart of sugar syrup or honey food, 

 add one or two drops of carbolic 

 acid, stirring it well. These appli- 

 cations (both inner and outer) are 

 repeated weekly, until not a sign of 

 foul brood is to be found. If, how- 

 ever, a colony is very badly affected, 

 use the first-mentioned application, 

 in the meantime caging the queen, 

 until all the brood is hatched out. 

 Then remove the bees to a disinfect- 

 ed hive and liberate the queen. If 

 several colonies are foul-broody, 

 all the combs can be given to one 

 colony, and only the queen belong- 

 ing to that colony need be impris- 

 oned, and the other colonies should 

 be given either empty combs or 

 comb foundation. When the heal- 

 thy brood has hatched from these 

 combs, the latter should be brought 

 into the bee house and thoroughly 

 disinfected. This is done by re- 

 moving the hive caps and placing 

 the combs in a mixture of carbolic 

 acid and water. In doing this, it 

 is necessary that the mixture 

 should fill every comb. It is there- 



fore advisable to inject this water 

 with a little syringe. If the comb 

 contains honey, it can be thrown 

 out and mixed with salicine or 

 carbolic acid in the above stated 

 quantity, and again be used as 

 food. 



This new method of treating 

 foul brood, is taken from "Grav- 

 enhorst's Praktischer Imker." 



All frames and utensils should 

 be washed repeatedly with carbolic 

 acid water ; also the bottom boards 

 of the hives containing healthy 

 colonies and the bees given repeat- 

 edly disinfected food, because the 

 spores of the disease are so easily 

 transferred through robber bees. 



{b) Without doubt, under some 

 circumstances, it can be done dif- 

 ferently, and yet a complete cure 

 be brought about, if one only con- 

 siders that the bacteria and their 

 spores everywhere must be killed 

 by a corresponding disinfectant. 

 You can put all the bees in any 

 empty hive which has been washed 

 out with carbolic acid water and 

 give them a new disinfected home ; 

 at the same time feeding them re- 

 peatedly with sugar and water con- 

 taining salicylic or carbolic acid, 

 but the whole hive is to be washed 

 down at any rate with the addition 

 of carbolic acid. 



Also put salicylic acid to the 

 honey that was taken out. But al- 

 so in this case the bottom boards 

 of the other healthy hives should 

 be washed from time to time in the 

 manner previously mentioned, with 

 carbolic acid water and these re- 

 ceive disinfected food. 



(c) From the above, the pre- 



