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Gleaning^s in Bee Culture 



cdiuli \\ licrc I'Jirciiicaii Imil lunod liist startf(l in S. 1 ). 



I'i-. :l.--.\n .lid 

 House's apiary. 



the past four years I ha\e jjiven some atten- 

 tion to ai)iaries niurouiuiiiifj me, and in 

 each instance found black or Euroi)ean foul 

 brood wherever I found black bees. F. A. 

 Salisbury, of Syracuse, N. Y., has had from 

 six to fifteen colonies of Italian bees, and 

 never saw any diseased brood among his 

 bees, and I know that the disease has ex- 

 isted on all sides of his ai)iary; in fact, its 

 first ai)i)earance in this county was within 

 two miles of his ajjiary, and has si)read to 

 every other ai)iaiy known to me witliin the 

 county. 



If Kuroi)can foul brood makes its ai)])ear- 

 ance during ^hiy, and the greater i)art of 

 the brood is alfected, I would (lei|ueen at 

 once, and, from ten to lifteen days later, the 

 length of time dei)ending u])on the race of 

 bees being treated (it takes twice as long for 

 the black or brown V)ee to clean out th.e cells 

 as it does the Italians; some hybrids will clean 

 up (juite fast), after 

 destroying the t|ueen- 

 cells that are in the 

 hive I give a (jueen- 

 f ell from g(«)d Italian 

 stock that will hatch 

 within a short time, 

 or a virgin ((ueen. 

 This ])eriod, during 

 the time that the vir- 

 gin is becoming a lay- 

 ing (jueen, is of great 

 value in tlie treat- 

 ment of the disease, 

 as the bees will show 

 a greater activity in 

 removing the scales 

 and ])olishing up the 

 cells in anticijjationof 

 brood - rearing again; 

 and by the time this 

 young queen gets to 



htying, there will have 

 Ijeen time for all the 

 iMood to hatch that 

 will hatch. In case 

 the colony is weak in 

 nimibers I ])lace an- 

 other light (jueenless 

 colony above, with an 

 excluding zinc be- 

 tween the two brood- 

 chambers, the combs 

 above being used later 

 for extracting - combs. 

 Often I find some 

 scattered cells with 

 dead larva' from these 

 young (pieens; but as 

 soon as we get Italian 

 workers in sufficient 

 numbers the dead lar- 

 va' disajjpear. I have 

 had good results from 

 feeding when there was 

 no honey -flow, after 

 this young queen com- 

 menced laying. 



Those colonies where 

 the disease ai)i)ears 

 alx)ut the time the white-honey season 

 oi)ens I shake into a new hive. If the col- 

 onies are not strong enough to do good 

 work during the honey harvest I shake two 

 into one hive, shaking the frames alternate- 

 ly from each hive and killing the queen 

 from the most diseased colony. The dis- 

 eased brood I stack u]) and allow to hatch, 

 if there is any that will hatch, and then 

 give a queen-cell, as above stated. Later 

 the ((ueen should V)e confined to one of these 

 brood-chambers by excluding zinc. Any 

 combs that are old and badly diseased 

 might as well be melted into wax, as the 

 wax from them will i)a>' for new founda- 

 tion. 



If the disease aj^jjcars ((//(>• the main 

 honey-How is over I proceed the same as 

 earlier in the season. 



When the trouble has once ai)i)eared in 

 the a])iary there shoidd be no interchang- 



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Fig. 4. — A liealthy comb that was badly diseased iu 1905, 



