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decided to try the 

 Alexander treat- 

 ment. I united 

 the colonies, de- 

 creasing the num- 

 ber from 112 to 50, 

 and requeened 

 them with Italian 

 q u e e n s of the 

 leather - colored 

 strain. This treat- 

 ment was a fail- 

 ure. The disease 

 returned in most 

 of the colonies the 

 same fall, and by 

 the next June 

 (1908) it was in 

 nearly all the col- 

 onies. 



I then decided 

 to try the McEvoy 

 treatment. This 

 not only proved to 

 be a cure but a ~"~"^~ 

 permanent one, 

 where the bees 

 were pure Ital- 

 ians; but where there was 



JIAXD BOTTOM-BOARD GIVEN A PRACTICAL TKST. 

 See A. I. Roofs department. 



l)artly black 

 blood the disease returned. I reduced these 

 50 colonies to 2o while using the McEvoy 

 treatment; but the disease reappeared in 

 only one colony that season. 



The next season, 1909, the disease broke 

 out in eight colonies, these being partly 

 black blood. The next season there were 

 also eight colonies diseased. I am satisfied 

 that the McEvoy treatment is a permanent 

 one where the queens introduced produce 

 inire Italians of a light color. This was my 

 experience in my home apiary. 



APIARY OF J. ALLEN SMITH, LAWRENCEVILLE, GA., RUN FOR BULK 



COMB HONEY. 

 Nearly all the bees kept in this locality are In box hives or nail-ljegs: but bee- 

 keeping in Dixie is rapidly coming to the front, nevertheless. All we need is a 

 few more men like J. J. Wilder. J. Allen Smith. 



The apiary shown in the cut on pre- 

 ceding page is owned jointly by Mr. J. W. 

 Free and myself, ^^'e took all precaution 

 ])ossible to prevent l^Airopean foul brood 

 from getting in this apiary. Having in- 

 spected all surrounding apiaries in 1908 I 

 had the nearest diseased apiary promptly 

 treated, it being about two miles from the 

 Free apiary. 



In the spring of 1909 Mr. Free was watch- 

 ing carefully for signs of the disease. He 

 reported, on May 31, that the brood did not 

 appear healthy* in some colonies. I exam- 

 ined the apiary, 

 and found Euro- 

 pean foul brood 

 in 40 colonies out 

 of the 1B5 colo- 

 nies. The tall hive 

 at the left-hand 

 corner of the pic- 

 ture i^roduced -118 

 lbs. of extracted 

 honey the previ- 

 ous year, and was 

 the first colony to 

 develop the dis- 

 ease in the last 

 stage. It was a 

 great temptation 

 to attempt to 

 patch up this api- 

 ary by treating 

 only those colonies 

 which showed dis- 

 ease, about two- 

 thirds of the col- 

 onies being pure 

 Italians of the 

 golden strain, the 

 rest being partly 

 blacks; but we de- 

 cided to treat the 



