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ing the disease, I would not pay the 

 price of a 2-cent postage to know how 

 others treat the disease ; but, then, they 

 might want to know how to treat the 

 foul brood that some bee-keepers have 

 in their apiaries in the United States, as 

 it appears from descriptions that the dis- 

 ease that myself, Messrs. Muth, Hutch- 

 inson, and others have had to contend 

 with, is different from that experienced 

 by some in Canada, that Mr. McEvoy 

 has treated ; more so than the difference 

 in the United States basswood and Cana- 

 dian linden honey. The honey might all 

 be acceptable, but the disease that I 

 have had to battle with would not yield 

 to any treatment that I have seen made 

 public, not excepting Mr. McEvoy's. 



Still, 1 saw in the Bee Journal of 

 Sept. 7, 1893, page 308, a challenge to 

 me, by which article Mr. McEvoy does 

 me an injustice, in saying that I warned 

 bee-keepers not to be misled by him. 

 Now, if Mr. McEvoy had not been so 

 hasty in his conclusions, and in misrep- 

 resenting my words and meaning to the 

 public, and had looked a little more 

 carefully at my article, that he referred 

 to, he would easily have seen that I only 

 warned such as had my method (and not 

 the bee-keepers at large) to follow my 

 treatment, and not be misled by Mr. 

 McEvoy's article or method, as I am 

 just as much interested i*i the success of 

 my method of treatment as he is in his, 

 no matter if I am but a wee bit of a fel- 

 low compared with him, in the eyes of 

 the public. 



Now as to the challenge : Does Mr. 

 McEvoy think that I have a foul brood 

 apiary, or kind of foul brood hospital 

 here, so as to have a foul-broody colony 

 whenever I wish*? If so, I must answer. 

 No, sir ! Nor have I seen any foul brood 

 in the last two seasons, for if I had, I 

 should have cleaned it out before this 

 time. Nor am I able to cause it (that is, 

 such as I am writing about) with dead 

 brood, as I am not writing about the 

 chilled or drowned foul brood of which 

 it seems Mr. JSicEvoy speaks, but such 

 as I have had in my apiary, and such as 

 it appears that Messrs. Muth, Root, 

 Hutchinson, and Mrs. Atchley and 

 others have described ; but if I had a 

 foul-broody colony, or if Mr. McEvoy 

 will wait until I can get one, and allow 

 me to amend the challenge as follows: 

 The $100 each to be deposited in a sav- 

 ings bank of Detroit . or Wyandotte, 

 Mich., subject to withdrawal upon the 

 decision of three judges (one to be 

 selected by me, one by Mr. McEvoy, and 

 the third by the first two appointed), 

 thereupon Mr. McEvoy to come here, 



and in my presence treat a colony by his 

 method as given in the American Bee 

 Journal, without disinfecting or scrap- 

 ing or cleansing the hive in any man- 

 near, but to put the bees back into the 

 same hive that they occupied when dis- 

 eased — then, if after the lapse of 60 

 days they are found to be in a healthy 

 condition, he to take the $200; if not, 

 then it is to be given to me ; and if he is 

 willing to accept it in that way, I will 

 let him know when I get or find a foul- 

 broody colony, as I could not accept his 

 challenge in the way he makes it, for 

 several reasons. 



I said in my former article, that in my 

 next I would give the reason why I do 

 not give my method to the bee-papers to 

 be made public, because when my article 

 on that subject appeared in the Bee 

 Journal about one year ago, I got quite 

 a shower of letters of inquiries, the first 

 of which I answered at once, giving my 

 method as best I could in a hurry ; but 

 as each mail brought more letters, I saw 

 it was impossible for me to answer all, 

 as some did not inclose as much as a 

 stamp for reply. So I thought I would 

 reply to all in the Bee Journal, but as 

 I got my method nearly ready to send to 

 the Bee Journal, I received three very 

 sharp letters, one of which was very in- 

 sulting, and the address not properly 

 given. Now, to give'my method to such 

 as they — no, sir! I thought I would 

 rather lose a few dollars, than to let such 

 as they have my method, which cost me 

 so much in bees, time and trouble. 



Still, many that asked in good faith 

 must be answered, as I have been at 

 bee-conventions and met many bee-keep- 

 ers, and always found them the cream 

 of society, and as every bee-keeper in 

 the land ought to have my method, no 

 matter whether his bees have foul brood 

 or not, for what Mr. McEvoy and some 

 others caution bee-keepers against, I 

 just recommend, and vice versa. Still, 

 the Doubting Thomases should not get 

 my method to laugh at and poke fun at, 

 but to such I would say that I am ready 

 to put up $100 or $150 against the 

 same amount, that if they will send me 

 a foul-broody colony that has enough 

 bees left to form an ordinary colony in 

 May or June, and if after the lapse of 

 60 days I cannot return them in a 

 strong and healthy condition in the 

 same hive and frames (hive to be a sin- 

 gle-walled, movable-frame), then I will 

 forfeit the $200 or $300; but if the 

 bees are strong and healthy, then I am 

 to get the money. 



So I had printed a very limited num- 

 ber of leaflets containing my method, 



