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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



I can tell him this winter sometime, 

 whether or not it will be worth while for 

 him to expect much of a flow from lin- 

 den and clover next year ; and I can tell 

 him, as I did in 1891, when it is going 

 to be a failure over any large section of 

 country. I don't care how much I am 

 ridiculed, I will prove, sooner or later, 

 that I am right. 

 Cosby, Tenn. 



Foul Brood and Bee-Interests 

 in Ontario, Canada. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY WM. M'EVOY. 



While waiting for the train to take me 

 to a village where I have to examine 

 many apiaries that were bad with foul 

 brood, in June last, I thought I would 

 write a few lines for the American Bee 

 Journal. 



In the last three seasons I have ex- 

 amined over 500 apiaries in the Pro- 

 vince of Ontario. For years I had been 

 receiving private letters on foul brood, 

 and knew that the disease was wide- 

 spread over the Province. But when 

 Messrs. F. A. Gemmill, D. Chalmers, A. 

 Picket, J. B. Hall, C. W. Post, Wm. 

 Couse, Wm. Wells, R. W. McDonnell, J. 

 McArthur, Lewis Traver, J. M. Hughes, 

 W. F. Clarke, H. Godard, S. Symonds, 

 Henry Couse, L. J. Mullock, James 

 Stewart, R. Kirby, J. Krienter, R. L. 

 Patterson, J. M. Frey, J. Davis, and 

 many others of our best bee-keepers had 

 the search-light turned on to every bee- 

 yard near them, it was one of the great- 

 est surprises to every one to see what a 

 terrible state our country had got into 

 with foul brood. 



I became greatly astonished, the more 

 I went through the Province, to find 

 such wholesale quantities of foul brood, 

 and so many bee-yards in such a horrid 

 state with the disease, and so few know- 

 ing that their colonies had the plague. 

 I went in for curing every colony that I 

 found foul brood in, as I felt that it 

 would be a disgrace to me to have it 

 said that I could not get every colony 

 cured of foul brood, no matter how bad 

 I found it, or at what time of the year it 

 was. But, oh, such a time as I had ! 

 Talk about a person having an "ele- 

 phant on his hands " — many a time I 

 felt as if I had too many "elephants" 

 on my hands. I had to get the foul 

 brood out of the bee-yards, or burn 

 them, and when others that knew noth- 

 ing about the disease would tell the 



owners not to mind me, it would upset 

 my plans for a time where the owners 

 were foolish enough to heed them. 



In most places I asked the owners to 

 be sure to write and let me know how 

 they were getting on with the curing, 

 and that I would answer and explain 

 everything so as to help them. Most of 

 them did write, which caused me far too 

 much writing, and the most of it was 

 done long after I should have been in 

 my bed. Did any of them make any 

 mistakes ? Well, I should say they did, 

 and after all the warnings that I had 

 given, some of them made some of the 

 most stupid mistakes that it was ever 

 possible for any reasonable men to make, 

 and it was for that reason that I wanted 

 to get letters from them, so as to see 

 that everything was going on all right. 



Did I get any abuse from any one ? 

 Yes ; and in some places it became 

 almost unbearable, sometimes, but I did 

 not mind it afterwards, as I knew the 

 owners had made a big mistake, and 

 now these very men that once acted so 

 unpleasantly, are among my best friends. 

 Everywhere I go now, I get on finely, 

 and the bee-keepers are curing their 

 apiaries in grand order. 



It would be a great surprise to " Uncle 

 Sam," if the search-light was turned on 

 to the bee-yards of the United States, 

 but still a bigger one to "Johnnie Bull," 

 as he would then find out that he had 

 foul brood almost everywhere at " 'ome." 

 While we have been curing our apiaries, 

 other countries have done but little. 



SOME CANADIAN BEE-NEWS. 



Mr. Awrey — our worthy commissioner 

 — has done his work so well, and in such 

 a nice manner, that he has turned the 

 eyes of all our best bee-keepers towards 

 Chicago, and when the time comes for 

 them to exhibit their honey and wax, I 

 believe they will down the whole world. 



Some fruit-growers in many parts of 

 our Province, had sprayed their orchards 

 with Paris-green while the trees were in 

 full bloom, and killed the bees by whole- 

 sale, that were working on the blossoms 

 at the time. I knew that it would be of 

 no benefit whatever to the fruit-grower, 

 to spray at such a time, while it would 

 be sure death to the bees if he did. I 

 then saw that the only thing we could 

 do to save the bees would be to get an 

 Act passed preventing the spraying of 

 trees while in bloom. At our annual 

 meeting I got a committee appointed to 

 wait on the Hon. John Dryden, Minister 

 of Agriculture, to get an Act passed at 

 once. As soon as the committee ex- 



