THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



and valuable lioney-flora, and its 

 thousands of heaven-perfumed blos- 

 soms ma}' be overflowing with the 

 precious nectar, and yet their 

 aroma may waste on the summer 

 air unless the bees are properly 

 fitted and prepared to secure it. 



I claim that whoever presents 

 the beekeeping fraternity with 

 new and better light upon this sub- 

 ject, or gives to us a better strain 

 of bees, is a public benefactor and 

 adds to the public knowledge 

 means for increasing our individual 

 and national income, and assists 

 in making apiculture one of our 

 permanent and remunerative na- 

 tional industries. 



With L. C. Root and otheis I 

 consider that coming years wdl 

 develop new and more valuable 

 methods of securing surplus honey 

 and of improving our races. I 

 can but quote tlie words of one 

 of the world's greatest schohu's, 

 " There is room up higher." Go 

 on, invent new ap[)liances and es- 

 tablish new and better methods, 

 dig deep into practical beekeeping 

 and bring to light new and inter- 

 esting facts, thereby aiding to make 

 apiculture a safe and remunerative 

 vocation. 



SYMPTOMS OF FOUL 

 BROOD. 



Bv D. A. Jones. 



In several communications lately 

 received the question has been 

 asked: "What are the symptoms 

 of Foul Brood, and how shall we 



detect it?" Should any persons 

 imagine that they have foul brood 

 in their apiary, and do not feel 

 sure of it, if the}' cut out a piece 

 of comb, say three or more inches 

 square, wrap it up in several thick- 

 nesses of good paper, and enclose 

 it in a tight box to my address, I 

 will inspect it and report. I have 

 received many specimens of what 

 the sender thought was foul brood, 

 but few of the specimens received 

 have been genuine. Larvae may 

 often be found in a peculiar state 

 when it might be mistaken for 

 foul brood ; when the brood has 

 been chilled or neglected, which 

 latter sometimes occurs in freshly 

 made nuclei, where too many bees 

 have returned to the parent stock ; 

 where sufficient bees have not been 

 put in to care for the brood ; where 

 the honey is consumed and there 

 are no old bees to gather more, or 

 from sundry other causes. Cases 

 of chilled, starved, or neglected 

 brood can always be distinguished 

 from the genuine foul brood, as 

 only the larva usually dies and 

 shrivels up, the skin retaining its 

 toughness to such an extent that 

 by it the larva may be removed. 

 There is also another disease of 

 the larvae which is sometimes found 

 both in Europe and America, which 

 is more like foul brood than any 

 of the above, and which frequent- 

 ly deceives those who we might 

 claim should be good judges, but 

 which, however, is not the genuine 

 article. It is a dying of the brood 

 both before and after it has been 

 capped over. The appearance of 

 this and the genuine is much the 



