THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



75 



Section 6. This act shall take effect 

 and be in force from and after its passage 

 and publication. 



Approved April i, 1897. 



As you have asked me to briefly ex- 

 plain the course I pursue in enforcing our 

 foul brood law, and what the results have 

 been, I will try and comply with your re- 

 quest. I go in for wholesale curing at all 

 times, and in all places, and have not 

 only succeeded in getting thousands of 

 colonies cured of foul brood, but have 

 made a great success of turning almost 

 ruined apiaries into great paying ones. 



For years past, many foul broody colo- 

 nies have been sold through the Province 

 of Ontario without either the seller or 

 buyer knowing that they tvere diseased. 

 Many of the buyers paid spot cash, while 

 others gave notes of from ^50. to I240. 

 I always gave such cases very prompt 

 attention; and worked for and secured 

 peaceful settlements and justice to l^oth 

 buyers and .sellers. 

 tf I have always a.sserted, and do yet, 



that foul brood can and does sometUnes 

 originate from the rotting of uncared for 

 brood; and believing that to be a fact, I 

 have warned bee-keepers everywhere 

 against the dangerous and horridly filthy 

 practice of putting combs containing de- 

 cayed brood into their colonies for the bees 

 to clean out. Many a fine apiary has 

 been ruined through the owner putting 

 combs of foul brood into his colonies for 

 his bees to clean out; he .suppo.sing it, at 

 the time, to be only cliillcd brood. I have 

 saved many a bee-keejjcr from loss, and 

 prevented the spread of a great deal of 

 foul brood, by my repeated warnings to 

 keep all combs with dead brood in out 

 of their colonies. 



In the honey flow several bee-keepers, 

 whose apiaries had got into a very bad 

 state with fold t)ivod, tried the "short 

 cut " by filling up the hives with founda- 

 tion just as soon as they took out the old 

 combs and then expected a cure. When 

 I examined these colonies in the fall I 

 found about one-half of them cured, 

 while the others had cells of foul l)rood 

 scattered all through the brood-nest. 



Of course, these beautiful white combs 

 had to be destroyed, and these colonies 

 treated over again. I felt sorry for the 

 owners, but it was no fault of mine in 

 their not carrying out my first orders. 



Mr. D. A. Jones, of Beeton, Ontario, 

 found the dumping of bees off foul broody 

 combs upon full sheets of foundation, a 

 failure; and before he could get his colo- 

 nies cirred he had to resort to starvation, 

 starving his bees almost to death before 

 he put them on foundation. 



If Ontario had been left until now with- 

 out a foul brood law, most of the bees in 

 our Province would have been swept out 

 of existence by this time. 



Mr. F. A. Gemmill, of Stratford, one of 

 Canada's best bee-keepers, took hold and 

 and worked very hard in securing the 

 passage of the foul brood Act, and to him 

 belongs the credit for the work that has 

 been done. 



WooDBURN, Ont. Feb. 16, 1S9S. 



\ AKI.\TI()\ IN BEES. 



l-'ully as Great as Amonj{ Other Domestic 

 .\iiinials, and is VaUiahle. 



J. E. CR.\NE. 



Nature, througli all her works, in great (iogree, 

 Horrows a blf.'Bsing from varioty.— Churchill 



RJ_ H E R E are 



few persons 

 A' ^^ living in the 



m m country who do 



not readily recog- 

 nize the great 

 \- a r i a t i o n s or 

 indivdual charac. 

 teristics, among 

 horses and other 

 d o ni e s t i c ani- 

 mal . Indeed, 

 we never find two exactly alike. There is 

 I difference in size, b uild or form, jispo- 

 sition, temperament, constitution, etc. 



