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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Apr. 11, 



cure of tils larRo apliiry, and I was vory much pleased with 

 the way h« did his duty. Mr. Clarke says that ho knew 

 that the apliuy of SO ooUinle.s had the disease badly, for he 

 coulil smell It from l\w sidewalk. I don't know that he conld 

 smell it from the sidewalk, but I do know that ho has been 

 blamed for selling the combs to the owner of it, that gave It 

 foul brood. 



Mr. Clarke says that durluR the followlni; summer (mean- 

 ing ISVt'Ji he had luitilled mo that the disease had appeared In 

 his apiary, t positively declare that he did not do anythlnc 

 of the kind. He wanted Mr. ttoinmill and me In his apiary on 

 a certain day when he was going to have the students there 

 from the Agricultural I'ollego. Mr. tiemmill and 1 got there 

 before the students did. We examined one nice colony of bees 

 that Mr. Clarke thoutflit a good deal of. 1 spotted one coll of 

 capped brood that did not look right — it had no " pin-hole" In 

 the capping, but the capping of the cell was sunk in a little. 

 I pointed at it, and said to Mr. Gemmlll, "This coll doesn't 

 look right." I then uncapped It, and Mr. tiemmill shouted 

 ■' Koul brood ! " as soo'; as ho saw the foul matter. " Yes," I 

 said, " it is genuine foul brood." That colony had only a few 

 foul colls. 



I then went to the south side of his apiary, and examined 

 his other colonies, and found three or four with foul brood : 

 two of then> had the disease pretty badly. This was early In 



isstu'. 



1 then wariuni Mr. Clarke well, to go to work in the honey 

 season (which was about starting), and cure his 4 or .5 dis- 

 eased colonies. I explained to him very fully how easily ho 

 could cure them, and as it was to .Mr. Clarke's interest to do 

 so, I fully expected him to go to work and cure his few dis- 

 eased colonies. When I went back in the fall to see if Mr. 

 Clarke had cured the 4 or ."i foul-broody colonies, 1 found that 

 he had never done one thing that I had told hiiu to do, and 

 that things had gone from bad to worse, and every one of his 

 colonies had gotten into the most rotten moss with foul brood 

 for the time, of any that I ever saw, Mr. Clarke must have 

 been using some old foul-broody combs, or done something 

 terrible to get all of his colonies into such a horrid state with 

 foul brood. In that time. 



If Mr. Clarke's apiary h.id been near any other, I would 

 liave buriu>d every one of his diseased colonies in the fall, 

 when 1 wont back and found thorn not cured. Mr. Clarke's 

 colonies were the only ones in that locality that had foul 

 brood then, ami they <?i<( not gel it from <uit/ hces tlicrc. 



Mr. Clarke says that he W.1S trying the phenol treatment, 

 and thaf 1 wished him to become convinced that it was no 

 good, so let him go on with it. I positively declare that 1 

 never did anything of the kind, and did not know until the 

 fall that ho had tried it. 8o Mr. Clarke should not form any 

 Hntrulhftil c.vciixcs for not curing his diseased colonies by my 

 methods of treatment, which I never consented to have set 

 aside for him or any one else. 



1 ottered that fall ( 18t>'2) to go to Mr. Clarke's and cure 

 one of his worst colonies at one stroke with combs of sealed 

 honey, which I would furnish him free of cost. I ottered to 

 do that on condition that Mr. Clarke was to take the colony 

 out of his diseased apiary, and bring it up to his homo to bo 

 treated there, where it would be away from the disease. Mr. 

 Clarke promised me faithfully to do so. I then wrote to Mr. 

 (.Tommill to express (i combs of scolcti honey to Jlr. Clarke, and 

 1 would mail him .'?li. 00 for thorn. Mr. tienimill did the best 

 ho could, and sent a Ueddon half-story full of very pretty 

 combs. He also wrote me when he would send the combs! 1 

 went from my homo to Ouolph — about 55 miles— and was there 

 when the train arrived with the combs of honey from Mr. 

 I'lOmmill. And so was Mr. Clarke. Then I found that Mr. 

 Clarke was not a man of his word, lie would not stand by 

 his promise and bring tlio colony up to his borne to be treated 

 where it would be away from his other diseased colonies. 1 

 fell pretty blue over that, as I know the risk was too great to 

 depend upon curing one colony right among his other colonies 

 that were rotten with foul brood. 



But as he was bound to have the colony cured right among 

 his diseased ones. 1 took the Heddon half story then, and 

 away we went to his apiary. 1 examined the combs very 

 closely in the Heddon half story that Mr. Gemmill sent, before 

 I put Mr. Clarke's bees on them, and found some cells at the 

 bottom of the combs not sealed, and a few empty cells. 1 

 then said to Mr. Clarke that if brood-rearing was started in 

 the very few empty colls at the bottom of the combs before 

 the bees consumed the honey that they took with them from 

 the old combs, that some of it would be fed to the larv;»> and 

 then the disease would break out again. The queen could 

 have been caged among the nice sound combs that Mr. G«mmill 

 sent, until the bees consumed all the diseased honey that they 

 took with them from the old combs. But I did not cage the 



queen, an I expected that colony to got the disease in the 

 spring by robbing at some of his other very foul-broody col- 

 onies. I never would have bought thos(> combs and gone all 

 the way to (!uelph. If I had known that Mr. Clarke was 

 going to break his promise, and would not have the test made 

 lip at his home, away from the disease, but would be deter- 

 mined when ho got mo there to have the test made right among 

 some of the worst cases of foul brood tliat I ever saw. 



1 went back in the following spring (189;i), when the 

 robbing season was about over, and examined the combs in 

 the Heddon half story, which I put the bees from the diseased 

 colony Into the fall before, and 1 found only :! colls of foul 

 brood In it, and these might have been caused by the bees 

 robbing at some of his diseased colonU'S. I then cut out the 

 piece of comb that had the a diseased cells, and said to Mr. 

 Clarke tliat I would make a perfect cure yet, with those combs 

 that Mr. liemmill sent, if he would carry out my orders with 

 that colony. He said, " O yes, I will." 



1 told him then that 1 would buy a good, strong colony 

 from Mr. Emigh, and liavo it expressed to him. 1 explained to 

 him what he was to do with the bees from Mr. Kmigh, when 

 they came, and for fear of any mistakes being made, 1 put It 

 in writing, telling him to cut all the brood and eggs out of the 

 colony that we were treating, and then cage the iiueon for 

 several days, and as soon as Mr. Emigh's colony arrived, to 

 destroy its iineon and then put all of Its bees into the one we 

 were treating, so that wo would succeed In getting a good cure 

 made, after all, from the combs that Mr. tiemmiU sent. I also 

 wrote Mr. Emigh a long letter, telling him everything about 

 the whole business. 



When Mr. Clarke got the colony from Mr. Emigh, he 

 divided its bees up and put them in a dozen of his colonies that 

 were dying with foul brood, and then told Mr. Emigh's son, 

 at the Coliege, that it was a line, strong colony of bees that 

 his father had sent him, and that he liad strengthened up a 

 dozen of liis colonies with it, by pu.tting all its bees into them. 

 Mr. Clarke wrote mo then that" he put the bees all into the 

 colony that wo were treating. I did not know for some time 

 after that, that Mr. Clarke had taken the bees that I paid for 

 to bo used for a test case, and put them into his dying colonies. 



On May '_'•-', ISya, I wrote to Mr. Clarke that if he would 

 hurry up and get his new frames and comb foundation, that I 

 would go to his place and cure his apiary myself, early in the 

 lioney season. 1 also wrote telling liini that I had written to 

 the Myers brothers to lot him have his supplies as cheap as 

 they could when he sent thorn his order. Mr. Clarke never 

 answered my letter until Juno L*o, and then ho was not ready, 

 and h.adn't gotten the frames or foundation. I then made up 

 my mind not to bother any more with Mr. Clarke, but to help 

 all I could in other places where the people were very anxious 

 to have me come and show them how to cure their diseased 

 apiaries. Mr. Clarke had the disease in his apiary in lSy2, 

 ISiUi, and l.!Si»4, and then I had to burn his colonies for the 

 public good, when I could not get him to do his duty. 



I mailed Mr. Gemmill StvOO for the Heddon half story of 

 combs that ho expressed to Mr. Clarke. Mr. Gommlll did not 

 want to charge mo one cent, and after that he wanted to give 

 me back the money, which I would not accept, as I always 

 stand by what I otter. 



Mr. Emigh sold me a great colony of bees for S5.00, 

 which was very cheap. He did it to oblige me. I spent 

 Si 1.00 on Mr. Clarke's apiary, and I can truthfully say that 

 I never was so deceived or humbugged by any man in my life, 

 SIS I have lioon by Mr. W. F. Clarke. That colony that I 

 examined on the College grounds did have foul brood, and I 

 can prove it, and 1 believe that Mr. Clarke himself admitted to 

 another man that it had the disease. 



Mr. Clarke wonders if I can explain who took combs 

 out of one of his colonies and piled them up. 1 cannot, and 

 Mr. Clarke knows that as 1 live over 5i> miles from Guelph, it 

 would be impossible for me to know. Hut I will say this, that 

 if any person did as he says, such conduct cannot be too 

 strongly condemned. I don't care how unpopular any man 

 may be, no person should destroy one cent's worth of his stuff. 

 \Vm. McEvoy, Fiii(( BrwHi Inspector. 



Woodburn, Out., Can.a<ia, March Jo, iyit5. 



[ As both Mr. Clarke and Mr. McEvoy have now been per- 

 mitted to tell their stories, the matter will end right here, so 

 far as the American Bee Journal is concerned. There are too 

 many practical bee-contributions on my desk now, awaiting 

 publication, to use further space in these columns on per- 

 sonal controversies, a continuance of which are always useless, 

 and extremely offensive to the majority of readers. — The 

 Editor. ] 



