TREATMENT OF THE CURABLE KIND AS 

 DESCRIBED BY DR. DZIERZON. 



" To put a stop to the evil immediately, 

 catch the queen without delay as soon as 

 any foul-brood cells have been observed. 

 In spring and early summer she may be 

 advantageously used for making an artifi- 

 cial swarm. If bees are added to her from 

 healthy stocks we may be sure of having a 

 healthy stock; but if bees Avere given to her 

 out of her own or other foul-broody stocks, 

 the swarm must be left in a transport hive, 

 sieve, or the like, twenty-four to forty-eight 

 hours before it is put into its hive, and the 

 queen must be kept caged here for some 

 days so that brood may not be deposited 

 nor brood-food jDrepared before the bees 

 have used up all the honey and food taken 

 with them out of their parent stocks, and 

 have expended it in comb-building. 



"Because there is now no more brood 

 deposited in the stocks robbed of queens, 

 none can die or go bad; and till a young 

 queen is reared, fertilized, and has begun 

 to lay eggs again, the bees will liave gained 

 time, if they are still tolerably strong, to 

 purify the brood-nest completely. They 

 may be assisted in this by cutting the comb 

 so close that the bees are able to cover it 

 thickly. The new generation will then gen- 

 erally thrive quite well, and the stock be 

 brought back to health again. There would 

 be a greater certainty of this if the entire 

 previous comb, as soon as it becomes empty 

 of brood, were cut out, and the entire stock 

 were driven into a new hive." 



COMPARISON OF THE DR. DZIERZON, THE 

 ALEXANDER^ AND THE DR. MILLER TREAT- 

 MENTS OF EUROPEAN FOUL BROOD. 



The primary Dr. Dzierzon treatment con- 

 sists in depriving the colony of its queen 

 and allowing it to rear another requiring 

 10 to 11 days to hatch and 7 to 10 days 

 more to become fertile and commence lay- 

 ing, leaving the colony without a laying 

 queen for a period of from 17 to 21 days, 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



during which time the colony will purify 

 the combs and hive of disease. 



The Alexander treatment consists in de- 

 priving the colony of its queen ; nine days 

 thereafter destroying all queen-cells that 

 may be built, or any virgin queens that 

 may have hatched; and on the 20th day 

 after dequeening, and not sooner, giving a 

 ripe queen-cell or virgin just hatched from 

 vigorous stock, leaving the colony without 

 a laying queen for a period of at least 27 

 days, during which time the colony will 

 purify the combs and hive of disease. 



The primary Dr. Miller treatment con- 

 sists in caging the queen with her colony 

 for a period of 8 to 10 days ; then releasing 

 her to her colony, the 8 or 10 days' time 

 being considered sufficient for the colony 

 to purify the combs and hives of disease. 



Mr. Alexander increased the time thought 

 necessary to accomplish the cleansing of the 

 combs and hive, over that found necessary 

 by Dr. Dzierzon, by about 10 days; and Dr. 

 Miller decreased that time by about 10 days. 

 It is obvious that the treatment that accom- 

 plishes the result sought in the lesser num- 

 ber of days is to be preferred. If it should 

 be established that the disease is inherent 

 in the queen, as has been announced by 

 Messrs. M. G. and C. P. Dadant, then 

 would the Dr. Miller treatment fail unless 

 the confinement of the queen for the 8 or 

 10 days would also purify her of disease 

 bacilli. 



To quote again from Dzierzon : " The 

 curable kind (European foul brood) may 

 occur of itself, under certain conditions of 

 ingathering, especially when the bees are 

 working on billberries and pines,* and 

 sometimes disappears again of itself when 

 the conditions have changed." 



Kenmore, N. Y. 



[This is the second of a series of four 

 articles by Mr. Hershiser on the history and 

 treatment of foul brood. In the first Feb- 

 ruary number he will discuss methods of 

 treatment under various conditions. — Ed.] 



A MALIHINI IN THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS 



BY LESLIE BURR 



October 12, 1915, is a red-letter day on 

 my calendar, for it was on that day that I 

 first saw the Hawaiian Islands, and at the 

 same time discovered a new name for my- 

 self. It happened this way — the new name. 

 I was standing on the corner of Fort and 

 Beretania streets, examining the fire-station 

 and the sidewalk, both of Avhich are made 

 of blocks of lava, and was observing the 

 Hawaiians, the Chinese, and the little ki- 



mono-draped Japanese women as they glid- 

 ed past. Some native HaAvaiian children 

 with schoolbooks under their arms passed 

 by. 



One of the children, a boy of about 



* The mysterious way in which European foul 

 hrood spreads puzzled the beekeepers of 50 years 

 ago. It is unlikely, however, that the germs of dis- 

 ease would be gathered fi'om forage unless they were 

 distributed to the same by bees from diseased colo- 

 nies. 



