THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 271 



Treatment of European Foul Brood. 



Detecting the Presence of the Disease by the Odor at the Entrance 



of the Hive. 

 B. J. HOLDEN, Dorset, Ohio. 



OX pai^e <S4, Feb. 1st. Gleanings in Bcc Cnltnrc. J. E. Crane 

 tells us of visiting a bee-keeper who had succeeded in getting 

 rid of European foul brood with Italians. 



Now, isn't this just what E. \\'. Alexander told us a number of 

 years ago? I have cured hundreds of cases of European foul brood 

 with golden Italians. I have been experimenting with European 

 foul brood for the past nine years, and know just what I am talking 

 about. This is the very argument I put up while attending the 

 Ohio State Bee-Keepers' Convention held at Columbus, Jan. 14 and 

 15. There were some there who seemed to think my experince was 

 more a "happenstance" than anything else. Well, maybe it was, 

 but let me say to you. Brother Bee-Keeper, it takes Italian blood to 

 get rid of European foul brood. I will say there are some strains 

 of Italians that will show the disease some, but by careful selecting 

 you can breed it out. And then remember there is something to 

 breed in, as well as something to breed out. Breed in the good 

 working qualities, and breed out foul brood. 



I raise my queens in golden Italian colonies and colonies ihat I 

 positively know do resist the disease, and the very best honev-gath- 

 erers, and then I prefer to have them mate with hvbrid drones. This 

 gives me the very best strain of honey gatherers I can possibly find. 

 Remember, I breed from golden Italians that will resist the disease. 

 / do not believe there is a bee disease exists that cannot be bred out. 



Get busy ! Mr. Queen Breeder. James Heddon used to lell us 

 he preferred a carefully bred cross between a pure Italian and a pure 

 black. But this is a little too much black blood, as European foul 

 brood is a black bee disease. I would prefer golden Italians if rhev 

 were as good for honey, but not in one case can I get a pure golden 

 Italian to come up to a golden Italian mated with a hybrid drone. 



Any treatment given a colony of bees for European foul t rood 

 where the old queen is kept, is a failure with me. as there is not a 

 spring goes by that I don't find the bees robbing the honey out of 

 trees, or some neighbor bee-keeper's hives, where the bees have died 

 out during the winter. 



There are always some of our young queens to mate with foreign 

 drones, and maybe to a drone right out of a diseased colony. It 

 means some changing of queens, but with me the best time to do 

 this is during the swarming season. I always make an examination 

 just before the main honey-flow sets in. If any are found to show 



