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my bees don't have the disease." And they don't try to keep 

 posted on it. 



Dr. Miller — I have no foul brood among my bees ; I don't 

 care about it. When it gets into my apiaries I will study 

 about it; it is a waste of space to me. 



Mr. France — You have a good residence; you will wait 

 until your house gets a fire, and then insure it. 



Mr. Bowen — ^We don't have foul brood in our neighbor- 

 hood. It doesn't seem to me that question was properly 

 understood. As I understood it, suppose one of our neigh- 

 bors has the disease, is there a way to keep our bees from 

 getting it? Is there any prevention? 



Mr. France — Keep a constant watch on your bees to 

 keep them from being infected. I don't think that a prac- 

 tical question. 



Mr. Smith — If a case of small-pox got among us we 

 would have to fumigate, but you can't do that with bees. 



Mr. Coppin — In the spring when they find they have a 

 lot of bees that have the disease, a good many of them don't 

 know about foul brood; if they would examine those bees 

 that died in the spring, they would find they had the disease, 

 and if they would examine the combs they would find they 

 had foul brood, and they could keep the rest of the bees from 

 getting it. Examine the combs when you find bees dead, and 

 you will often find foul brood of the worst kind. I told them 

 to send it to the inspector, which they did; it was a bad 

 disease because bees don't die leaving a lot of combs full 

 unless they have the disease. It is easy to tell when the 

 bees are found dead in the spring if they have foul brood. 

 It could be prevented I think. 



KEEPING BROOD OUT OF SECTIONS, 



"What is the best way to keep brood out of sections?" 



Dr. Miller — Use a queen-excluder ; you will not have any 

 brood there. I can prevent it to so great an extent without 

 that, that I don't want to be to the expense of using ex- 

 cluders. 



Mr. Smith — Tell your secret. 



Dr. Miller — It is no secret. Some having brood in their 

 sections do the same as I do, except that they don't have 

 their sections filled with foundation w^hen the honey-flow 

 starts, and no brood-comb in the brood-chamber. They will 

 fill out the comb in the sections. Some times I have known 

 the bees to leave a piece of brood-comb for use in the section- 

 comb entirely empty. Keep your sections filled; that is the 

 secret. Keep the bees from putting drone-comb, and then 

 the queen won't go up to lay. 



Mr. Primm — How do you fill your sections with founda- 

 tion? 



Dr. Miller — Fill it so full that there can't be drone-brood 

 in it, so the queen can't get at it. 



Mr. Coppin — I find that the Doctor's theory is correct. 

 If you fill it full of foundation the queen will not go there 



