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VOL. XV. FLINT, MICHIGAN, JUNE 10, 1902. NO. 6. 



DEFYING FOUL BROOD. 



BY. M. A. GILL. 



Some Details Regarding the Plan of Wholesale Shaking 

 for Freeing an Apiary of the Pest. 



Diseases, desperate grown, by desperate appliance are reliev'd, or not at all — Shakespeare. 



EDITOR Review — You have asked me 

 if I approve of the plan of shaking off 

 every colony, letting them build new 

 combs, as the best method to keep an 

 apiary free from foul brood, and how I 

 would proceed. 



TWO REMEDIES FOR FOUL BROOD. 



Replying to these questions, I will say, 

 I have only two remedies for foul brood 

 (except an occasional colony by the 

 starvation plan), and they are fire and 

 the shaking off plan. As to whether I 

 would shake off if e'^rv colony depends up- 

 on the hives, conditions of the combs, 

 and the extent that the apiary has been 

 exposed. 



If I had an apiary in which the combs 

 were straight, and the hives uniform, and 

 I knew that the exposure had not been 

 great, I would carefully watch, and mark 



every colony, and shake them as soon as 

 the honey flow started. I would still 

 continue to carefully examine for more, 

 and shake the bees off whenever a case 

 developed. I would keep up this plan 

 until the first of August, 



ONE PECULI.\RITV OF FOUL BROOD. 



There is one peculiarity about this dis- 

 ease. To illustrate: We will say that an 

 apiary has been exposed in February 

 and March. A few cases will develop in 

 April; a few more in May; and others 

 still later. There seems to be no fixed 

 period of iucubatioii for the germs; but 

 when the heat of summer comes, the^t is 

 when the most cases develop. More 

 cases will show up in June than in both 

 April and May; but, in my experience, 99 

 percent, should develop Vjy July 15th. 



