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are not caged. Cage all the queens, and 

 keep them caged while on the starters, 

 and for two days after they are put on 

 the full sheets of foundation, to prevent 

 swarming out; and feed an abundance 

 in the evenings ; by doing that, all will 

 work like clock-work. 



Now, farmers, I beg of you to mind 

 me, and do not put off this work until 

 some morning when your crops are so 

 wet that you can't do anything else, and 

 then go and stand with your two feet 

 right in the front of the entrance to the 

 hives, and then commence removing the 

 combs and shaking part of the bees in 

 the hive and the rest on the ground, 

 thus causing the bees to mix into every 

 colony in your bee-yard, to ruin all. 



If you have the disease in 10 or 12 

 colonies, don't tinker with them and lose 

 all by doing one or two in a week, and 

 then in a week after doing two more, 

 and then scatter the bees about so that 

 they rush into the cured ones that you 

 did the week before, and thus get the 

 disease back into them again. Do the 

 whole 10 or 12 in one evening. If you 

 can't do that, don't be more than two 

 evenings at a small lot like that. 



Burn all frames as soon as you cut the 

 combs out of them, because it won't pay 

 you to waste valuable time in scalding 

 and fussing with old, daubed frames, 

 when nice new ones are so cheap. Make 

 wax of the combs just as soon as you cut 

 them out of the frames. 



If your apiary is badly diseased, don't, 

 under any consideration, save even one 

 comb either in or out of your hives. Re- 

 member if you do, it will start the dis- 

 ease again. 



Don't waste your time in boiling, 

 scalding, or disinfecting any empty hive 

 that had foul brood in it; the empty 

 hives are perfectly safe to use in any 

 way you wish without doing anything 

 with them. I saved many wood-piles, 

 and the people from a world of labor, by 

 forbidding the boiling and the disinfect- 

 ing of empty hives that foul brood had 

 been in. 



While on my rounds through Ontario 

 the first summer, I found the bee-keep- 

 ers everywhere ready, and very anxious, 

 to boil and disinfect all empty hives that 

 foul brood had been in. I could have 

 very easily traded upon the ignorance of 

 the people, by advising them to do so, 

 which would have been a very unjust 

 thing for me to do — to cause the bee- 

 keepers a terrible lot more work, and 

 waste their valuable time and wood-piles 

 in boiling empty hives that foul brood 

 had been in. I had not the heart to do 

 it, and looked on it as little short of 



crime on my part, if I did not forbid it. 

 I forbade it everywhere, and the people 

 are loud in my praise for saving them 

 from a lot of useless work. I always 

 told the bee-keepers that there was no 

 more reason for scalding empty hives 

 than their was for scalding the bees that 

 were full of the deadly honey when they 

 were put into the hives after the rotten 

 combs were removed. 



I see by the American Bee Journal 

 of July 13th, that Mr. Cornell is after 

 Prof. Shaw with a sharp stick, because 

 he gave me credit for both the discovery 

 of the cause and cure of foul brood. 

 Prof. Shaw is right, and I do positively 

 declare that the so-called scientists don't 

 know to-day the true cause of foul 

 brood, and I must rule them all out, and 

 Mr. Cornell along with them. I was the 

 first to discover the true cause, the real 

 cause, the ivhole cause ; the whole, sole, 

 real and only cause of foul Mood. I don't 

 like it one bit, in Mr. Cornell trying to 

 take that from me, and give it to pro- 

 fessional guessers. I discovered the 

 true cause of foul brood in 1875, and in 

 the American Bee Journal of May 11, 

 1893, I gave my discovery, and the 

 discoveries of other good and truthful 

 men. I ask it as a favor of all who 

 have the Bee Journal of May 11th, to 

 read the strong chain of evidence which 

 no living man can dispute, that I gave 

 there. I was the first man in the world 

 to discover the real cause of foul brood, 

 and I feel awfully annoyed to see Mr. 

 Cornell trying to take it from me. 



If every bee-keeper took proper care 

 of his bees, and kept rotten brood out 

 of his colonies at all times, we would 

 have no foul brood. But so long as we 

 have dirty, careless botches keeping 

 hives full of rotten brood, we will have 

 foul brood originating and breaking out 

 to ruin the good men. 



What good have the scientists ever 

 been to the bee-keepers ? I don't like 

 to come down so hard on these men, but 

 what else can I do when they won't help 

 me by advising all bee-keepers to keep 

 all dead matter out of their hives at all 

 times. They don't do that, but Mr. 

 Cornell and his so-called scientists get 

 right squarely in my road, and block my 

 way, by finding fault with me when I 

 am doing my best to get all to stop 

 manufacturing foul brood to ruin their 

 neighbors. 



Prof. Shaw is a thorough, practical 

 man, and he agrees with me on the 

 cause of foul brood, and knows that I 

 was the first to discover it. Mr. Allen 

 Pringle, who is the best read man in 

 science that I ever met, agrees with me 



