AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Jan. 5, 1899. 



of September. For nearly 30 years I have been trying- and 

 experimenting-, to find such a plant, but thus far I have 

 failed to do so. and do not believe any such plant can be 

 found. 



The South needs to have more attention paid to the pres- 

 ervation of her native fore.st honey-producing trees ; for in- 

 stance, the poplar, which is one of the best. More attention 

 should be paid to the culture and propagation of honey-pro- 

 ducing plants, particularly to those having other uses than 

 the mere secretion of honey. Crimson, Alsike and white 

 clover do well on most soils, but best on alluvial soil. The 

 two latter clovers did well and secreted nectar abundantly 



Dr. J. P. H. nrowv. 



in the latitude of Augusta, Ga., the past season. We need 

 i-nore attention paid to fruit-culture, for with it we get more 

 .sweets. We need to build up and preserve the honey-flora. 



Knowledge of what to do, when to do, and how to do, is 

 greatly needed. The person who invests money in bee-fix- 

 tures, and not in books of instruction, has just thrown his 

 money away, for bee-keeping will only be a delusion to him. 

 " Knowledge is power."' and the mass of Southern bee-keep- 

 ers need it. 



With most honey-producers a better market is needed. 

 Many look off to some big market, accompanied with big 

 railroad freight and commissions, and lo.se sight of develop- 

 ing- and building tip the home market. By a liberal scatter- 

 ing of tracts explaining the properties and uses of honey, 

 and offering it in small packag-es neatly and cleanly put up, 

 a trade can be establisht in places where now only a few 

 pounds are sold. 



While the Lord helps all, the Southern bee-keepers need 

 to put their shoulders to the wheel and work out their own 

 salvation bv pluck, knowledge and untiring energv. 



J. P. H. Brown. 



The following is the paper written by Mr. Wm. McEvoy, 

 Foul Brood Inspector for the Province of Ontario, Canada : 



Foul Brood Its Cause and t:ure. 



Foul brood will be almost a thing of the past when 

 every bee-keeper keeps dead brood out of every colony of 

 bees. The very filthy habit that so man)' have fallen into, 

 of putting comb with dead brood in, into colonies for the 

 bees to clean out, is a bad one, and one of the very best 

 ways of spreading foul brood. Many a l)ee-keeper finding- 

 two or three of his colonies dead, and not knowing that they 

 died of foul brood, has divided the combs among his best 

 colonies, to get the bees to clean out the decayed brood he 

 found in them, and instead of getting the combs cleaned 

 out, spread the disease through his apiary at a rapid rate. I 

 have always claimed, and do vet, that where brood-rearing 

 is contitiued for a length of time in weak colonies, among 

 a quantity of decaying brood, that it will .sooner or later end 

 in foul brood. If we want our colonies to keep in a healthy 

 condition, and do well, we must keep dead brood out of them. 



The young bee destroyed bj' foul brood first turns yel- 

 low ; as it decays further it becomes a brown, ropy matter, 

 and many of the capt cells (in bad cases) will be sunken a 

 little in the capping, with a small hole in .some of them. 

 When the foul matter dries down it .settles on the lower side 

 and bottom of the cells, and sticks there like glue, and will 

 remain there as long as the comb lasts. And when the bees 

 are gathering honey they store it in the cells where the foul- 

 broody matter dried down, just the same as they do in .sound 

 cells, and often seal them ; then, as .soon as the larva? is fed 

 any of the honey that has been stored in the diseased cells, 

 it will die of foul brood ; and when larva? is fed in cells 

 where foul matter dried down, it will also die of the disease. 



No foul-broody colony in the world was ever cured, or 

 ever can be cured, by the use of any drug. To cure an api- 

 ary of foul brood, every comb must be removed out of every 

 diseased colony, and the bees thoroughly cleansed of the 

 honey which they will take out of the old combs when they 

 are being removed. In the honey season, when the bees are 

 g-athering honey freely, remove all the combs out of the dis- 

 ea.sed colonies in the evening, and shake the bees back into 

 their own hives ; then give them frames with foundation 

 starters, and let them build comb for four days. The bees 

 will make the starters into combs during the four days, and 

 store the diseased honey in them which they took with them 

 from the old combs. 



Then in the evening of the fourth day remove the new 

 combs and give the bees full sheets of foundation to work 

 out, and then the cure will be complete. 



By this method of treatment all diseased honey is re- 

 moved from the bees before the full sheets are workt out. 



All the old. foul-broody combs, and these made out of 

 the starters during the four daj-s, must be made into wax or 

 burned. 



The curing- can be continued after the honey season 

 closes, and the bees be cleansed of the diseased hone)- by 

 feeding them .sug-ar syrup in the evenings during- the four 

 days thev are on the comb foundation starters, and when 

 the little combs are removed, the fourth evening, and the 

 full sheets of foundation given, the bees should be fed plenty 

 of stores to winter them. Where the colonies are weak in 

 bees, put two, three or more of the-m in one, so as to make 

 good, strong colonies to start the curing with, and end the 

 season with good, strong colonies, which are the only profit- 

 able ones to keep. 



In all the thousands of diseased colonies that I have 



Wm. McEvoy. 



gotten cured of foul brood, I never had one empty hive 

 boiled, scalded or disinfected in any way ; and I know for a 

 fact that the empty hives cannot give any colony the dis- 

 ease. * Wm. McEvov. 

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Doctor's Advice Frbk. — American Bee Journal sub- 

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 entitled to free medical advice on enclosure of a stamp to 

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