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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



give us a fair cliance to give the re- 

 sults of our experiments, sliutting us 

 out from tlie reading columns and put- 

 ting us in the advertising columns. 



If I should tell you t1iat I have no 

 interest in this matter I should err. 

 Our friend Feet in speaking of the 

 requirements of a man who shall con- 

 duct a bee paper on the broad basis of 

 the interests of tlie beekeepei's must 

 be one who is willing to work hard 

 and for small pay. If the " Apicultu- 

 rist" is at least a good journal it 

 should and will be supported. AVe are 

 liere as an international convention 

 and may disagree with Mr. Newman in 

 one of his late editorials. I believe 

 that we should at least place tliis 

 journal upon an equal footing with the 

 rest and that it is for the personal ad- 

 vantage of every beekeeper to support 

 any good journal that will work for 

 his interests. 



The resolution was then put and 

 carried, after which Mr. Locke stated 

 that he wished to offer the following 

 remarks, viz. : If those who supposed 

 that he came here to make the " Api- 

 culturist" the "olllcial organ" of this 

 association, will refer to tiie editorial 

 in the September number of the "Api- 

 culturist " they will notice that he re- 

 ferred to this matter and plainly stated 

 that he had no such object in view, 

 and in fact did not deem it advisable ; 

 also they would notice that tliis edito- 

 rial was written prior to that which 

 appears in the "American Bee Jour- 

 nal" of Oct. 15, written by Mr. New- 

 man. He then thanked the convention 

 for the kindly^nd hearty endorsement 

 given the " Apiculturist," and stated 

 that in the past he h;id endeavored to 

 give the beekeepers a good journal 

 and had always felt that if it was wor- 

 thy of the support of the beekeepers 

 that it would be supported. 



The secretary then read a paper 

 written by Mr. D. A. Jones entitled 

 *'The Cure of Foul Brood by Fasting." 



[As the description which Mr. Jones 

 gives of the disease is similar to other 

 descriptions, we only give the cure.] 



I could describe several methods of 

 cure, but the following I think will be 

 ample, and as it is very simple and 

 easy to perform it comes within tlie 

 reach of all. If the bees have any 

 brood I do not destroy tiiat, but I re- 

 move the queen and all the bees that 

 can be spared from the hive, leaving 

 only a sufficient number to take care 

 of the brood while it is hatcliing. I 

 endeavor to have them all tilled with 



honey before morning. They are then 

 shaken into a box having a wire-screen 

 lid and placed in a dark, cool cellar. 

 The box should be turned down on its 

 side when the bees will cluster on the 

 other side which will then be upper- 

 most; and the wire-screen, forming a 

 side for the time being, will allow of 

 free ventilation. 



They should be left thus for three to 

 six days, according to the temperature 

 and condition of the bees, which may 

 be determined by watching; and when 

 a few bees fall down and begin to 

 crawl in a weak, stupid manner, and 

 those still clustering appear to have 

 shrunken, they may then be removed 

 and placed in a hive supplied wiih 

 empty comb or comb foundation. A 

 little honey or syrnp should be given 

 them, when they will soon be out fora- 

 ging again for themselves. I have not 

 been able to see any difference between 

 colonies so fasted, until foul honey 

 which they contain has been con- 

 sumed, and an ordinary colony of sim- 

 ilar size. Both seem to go to woik 

 with the same determination which 

 characterizes their race. 



Some will pronounce this fasting plan 

 a failure but where that has been said, 

 it cannot have been properly tried. As 

 soon as the brood, which was left in 

 the foul-broody hive with some bees, 

 as directed, is hatched out, they should 

 be treated like the others, the combs 

 rendered into wax and the hives and 

 frames boiled in water for a few min- 

 utes. 



Tlie wax in the form of comb foun- 

 dation may he inserted in the same and 

 be ready in the piiritied hive to receive, 

 Avith perfect safety, the former inmates 

 as soon as their purification is complete. 

 The honey in the foul-broody combs, 

 if extracted and boiled for ten minutes, 

 can lie fed to the bees without any fear 

 of injurious results. Boiling will kill 

 unly the germs of the disease. 



I have'subjected foul-broody combs 

 to a temperature 35° below zero and 

 allowed them to freeze all winter, then 

 placed one of them in a healthy nucleus 

 and as soon as it was filled with brood 

 and commenced to hatch, I have found, 

 at first examination, a very large num- 

 hur of larvae attected with foul brood. 

 Every case of foul brood which I have 

 found in this part of Canada, I have 

 never failed to cure at the first attempt. 

 In fact, there are a great many bee- 

 keepers in Canada, now, who no longer 

 dread foul brood in their apiaries 

 as they used to, knowing that they 



