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EIGHTH ANNUAL. REPORT OF THE 



, a member here from Chillicothe. His 

 bees have some disease, and it weak- 

 ens the colonies down one-half, but it 

 will yield to treatment similar to foul 

 brood. 



Mr. W. H. Gray: Mr. President, it 

 has been with us three years. We got 

 somewhat scared. It is something like 

 foul brood. We have bees that couldn't 

 get into the hives or get out. 



I wrote to Dr. Miller but before I got 

 his letter I got a jacking up from him 

 through the Bee Journal for not -read- 

 ing up on bees and foul brood. 



Bees would die when three days old 

 and even coming out of the cell. Well, 

 we doctored it the same as we would 

 have foul brood. Some got well, most 

 of them did. 



We thought we got clear of it. Of 

 course we were not fixed in good shape 

 for it during the next year. First year 

 thirty (30) colonies, maybe there were 

 thirty-five (35) or fifty (50). 



I sent some of the brood to Mr. 

 France, and he said it was neither foul 

 brood nor black brood. 



In May there wasn't thirty (30) 

 pounds of honey. We had pretty much 

 cold weather; it was very cold. They 

 didn't gather much. Last winter and 

 last spring it was worse than ever. It 

 was all through the yard. I changed 

 everything but twelve (12) colonies. 

 Wherever a colony was strong enough 

 they would clean it all out clean. Some 

 that I didn't change, three or four, 

 along in June. Some got rid of it, but 

 it is still there, and what it is I don't 

 know. They clean the comb out clean. 

 It doesn't draw down on the side walls 

 and doesn't draw out when you draw 

 out the brood, but what disease it is I 

 don't know. 



We had some at the fair. The gen- 

 tleman there pronounced it foul brood. 



I have some that was in the foul 

 brood but it doesn't show up lilce any- 

 thing we have. The young bees don't 

 seem to turn color. They just stay 

 watery. 



^ Dr. Miller: It seems to me, Mr. 

 President, that a vote of censure will 

 be proper when we have more dis- 

 eases than we know of. 



Mr. President, if Mr. France said 

 it is different from the other diseases 

 I would have greater faith in his word 

 than anything. 



Letters that were sent to me or in- 

 quired of me, if they were sent to him 



you would do better. I know nothing 

 of bee diseases. 



If any of you have anything you are 

 suspicious of as being foul brood, or 

 anything of that kind, better send it 

 to Mr. France at once, as he is a 

 member of this Association. 



Always send it so it can't do any 

 harm. Put it in tin or something, so 

 it is thoroughly provided against 

 breaking out. 



Mr. Gray: I put it in a tin box and 

 sent it. 



Mr. Hyde: Mr. President, I didn't 

 understand what you said about the 

 bees and their honey. 



Mr. Grey: That was May last year. 

 It was there most of the time, and 

 up to the last of May or the first of 

 June, when I would go through, they 

 had a little new honey, but they 

 wouldn't have one hundred pounds in 

 one hundred colonies. They have it 

 when there is plenty of honey. 



Mr. Hyde: I have an idea it is what 

 is called starve brood. 



Mr. Holekamp said it was starve 

 brood. I was down to St. Louis and 

 he told me that. He told me it was 

 starve brood. When they don't raise ' 

 much honey they don't have much 

 brood. 



A Member: Is this disease in all 

 of your colonies? 



Mr. Grey: In most. I changed them 

 around. 



Mr. Hartmann: Did you find them 

 in the new swarms as well as the 

 eld? 



Mr. Grey: Remains with the old 

 swarm, and sometimes after we change 

 them find them in the new ones. We 

 got a tank last year and cleaned them 

 all up but still they might have got 

 something from one place or other. 



Mr. Lee: Dr. Miller, is it possible 



to have any starve brood? They suck 



• all the moisture from the brood. I 



claim it is impossible to have starve 



brood. 



Dr. Miller: Mr. President, McEvoy, 

 the starve brood expert, says it is 

 very often the case that it will be a 

 case of starve brood where it is sup- 

 posed to be foul brood. It is simply 

 because there is a shortage of stor- 

 age. 



Mr. Lee is correct in one respect. 

 When bees actually get short of stores, 

 when they have nothing to feed their 



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