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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



How to Safely Disinfect Foul- 

 Broody Hiyes, Etc. 



Query 858.— 1. Having had a colony of 

 bees with foul brood, how can I disinfect the 

 hive so that it will be safe to use again with- 

 out contracting the disease ? 2. Will foul 

 brood originate in a healthy colony of bees if 

 the bees have access to decaying or rotten 

 brood, the brood being talsen from a healthy 

 colony and left exposed ?— Mich. 



—James A. Green. 

 think not.— C. C. 



2. No.— Mrs. J. 



-Will 



1. Boil it. 2. No.- 



1. Burn it. 2. I 

 Miller. 



1. Burn the hive. 

 N. Heater. 



1. Boil it. 2. I should fear it.- 

 M. Barnum. 



1. I do not know. 2. I think not. — 

 Jas. a. Stone. 



1. Boil it in water. 2. I don't know. 

 — J. M. Hambaiigh. 



1. If I had one hive, and only one, I 

 would burn it. 2. No. — E. France. 



1. By keeping it in boiling water for 

 say 15 minutes. 2. No. — E,. L. Taylor. 



1. Look up authorities on foul brood. 

 2. I have no experience. — EugeneSecor. 



1. Sulphur it, and let it remain empty 

 for a season out-of-doors. 2. No. — P. 

 H. Elwood. 



1. Burn it, and use the ashes around 

 your grape-vines. 2. I do not know. — 

 Mrs. L. Harrison. 



1. Keep it five Tuinutes in boiling 

 water. 2. Never; no more than will 

 figs come from thistles. — A. J. Cook. 



1. This question cannot be answered 

 in a few words. 2. No, if the brood was 

 not killed by foul brood. — Dadant & 

 Son. 



1. I have had no experience whatever 

 with foul brood, and know very little 

 about it. 2. I should say yes. — C. H. 



DiBBERN. 



1. Boiling-hot water will destroy any 

 living germ if the contact is long enough. 

 2. Such a thing has never occurred in my 

 apiary, and I have no fears that it ever 

 will. But I don't know. I have never 

 seen a case of the disease known as 



" foul brood," and if there was ever any 

 such disease among bees in this end of 

 the earth, the oldest men I have met 

 never heard of it. — G. W. Demaree. 



1. I don't know. I never had any 

 among my bees. I always thought I 

 would burn them up if I had. 2. I think 

 not. — S. I. Freeborn. 



1. I don't believe it can be done. I 

 have tried it, and find it don't pay. 2. 

 Foul brood will not originate in the man- 

 ner suggested. — J. E. Pond. 



1. Scald it out thoroughly, then give 

 it a good coat of paint inside, and it will 

 be safe to use again. But unless lumber 

 is high, the better way would be to burn 

 the whole business. 2. No. — Mrs. Jen- 

 nie Atchley. 



1. Boil it for 30 minutes. 2. No. 

 You can contract blood-poisoning from 

 several different sources, but you will 

 not take small-pox from the measles, 

 nor the itch from erysipelas. When you 

 get the germs that produce foul brood, 

 then you will have foul brood, and not 

 before. — H. D. Cutting. 



1. Melt the combs, burn the frames, 

 scald the hive, including top, bottom, 

 and all the traps, even to the smokers 

 and feeders. Old sections should be 

 burned, etc. The trouble is, you are not 

 half thorough and careful enough. 2. 

 No. — J. H. Larrabee. 



1. I think that boiling it for a time 

 would do. There are several disinfect- 

 ants which I think would do, such as 

 carbolic acid, sulphur, and perhaps 

 chloride of lime. 2. I think not. — M. 

 Mahin. 



1. Wash the hive inside and out with 

 carbolic acid, then give it inside and 

 out a coat of paint. 2. While I cannot 

 say positively, I would dislike to have 

 the experiment tried in my apiary. — J. 

 P. H. Brown. 



1. Burn the hive and all its contents, 

 this winter, for you cannot afford to run 

 any risk for one bee-hive. 2. I think 

 not. But why leave rotten brood 

 around ? If you are to be an apiarist 

 worth the name, you will not leave such 

 around you or the bee-yard. — G. M. Doo- 

 little. 



1. My belief is that if the inside of 

 the hive was saturated with a mixture 

 of equal parts of alcohol and carbolic 

 acid, and allowed to dry out, it would be 

 safe, especially if a little napthaline was 

 used upon the bottom-board after the 

 bees were again put into the hive. 2. 

 There seems little doubt but that foul 

 brood may originate in the manner sug- 

 gested, but not always. — G. L. Tinker. 



