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Miss Wilson — Well, I don't think I 

 would. I would rather be sure when 

 I got throug-h. I do think it is hard 

 to treat them that way when there is 

 any honey coming in, but I think if 

 there was a good flow of honey, it 

 would not put them back nearly as 

 much as when there was a dearth. I 

 don't like to have to do it over; 1 

 want to be sure they are all right. 



Mr. Lathrop — Dr. Miller didn't say, 

 in his talk, that he destroyed the 

 combs in the first place, but I suppose 

 he did. 



Dr. Miller — I didn't mention that; I 

 melted them up. If I had it to do over 

 again, I would not do it. That is one 

 of the things against Miss Wilson's 

 way of doing; she is a reckless, 

 wasteful sort of creature! 



Miss Wilson — That depends — if you 

 have to treat them twice, and then 

 melt up the combs! 



Mr. Horstmann — About six or seven 

 years ago I was treating foul brood i"n 

 my yard, and tried all kinds of plans. 

 I tried to save the combs, and the mor^ 

 I tried the worse I got; so I took the 

 McEvoy plan, and cleaned the bees 

 right out; put them on starters for 

 five days; put them off from that, and 

 on full sheets of foundation. Lrast year 

 I had another little dose of foul brood, 

 but I think it, must have been different 

 from what I had the time before, be- 

 cause there was one colony in partic- 

 ular, I noticed last year, which I pro- 

 nounced having foul brood, and several 

 of the bee-keepers did the same thing, 

 and last spring it came out all right, 

 and there was no sign of foul brood. 

 There was one colony in particular 

 that was ibadly affected with foul 

 brood, and I cleaned them out. There 

 must be different kinds of foul brood. 

 I knew this was a case, (because I sent 

 a sample to Washington, and had a 

 report come Isack. If you have the 

 genuine foul brood, I believe the only 

 way to clean it out is to take the Mc- 

 Evoy plan, and then you will clean it 

 up with one job. 



Dr. Miller — ^Was that American or 

 European foul brood? 



Mr. Horstmann — The foul ibrood 1 

 had some years ago, I had a report 

 from Dr. Howard, in Texas, on it. I 

 know the foul brood I had the last 

 time was notlShg like I had the other 

 time. I fooled with that a couple of 

 years; finally I adopted the MciEIvoy 

 plan, and cleanefl It out. 



Mr. Moore — I have had experience 

 three seasons with foul brood, and I 

 will have to go against Dr. Miller. 

 Don't let Dr. Miller lull you into a 

 sense of false security. Don't you 

 think for a minute, if you have foul 

 brood, that you have the easy kind — 

 black ibrood, that you can fool along 

 with and get rid of it — for you will 

 have to adopt drastic measures in the 

 end. Whenever you get anything in 

 the way of foul brood, you put it down 

 right there and then that you have 

 American foul brood, and treat it in 

 the most drastic manner you can. It 

 is a discouraging thing co go right 

 through all your hives and think you 

 have got rid of it, and the next time 

 find you have it in your apiary. I am 

 dead against treating it in any way 

 but the McEvoy treatment. Melt your 

 combs up, if you please, and save 

 them. I did that, (but that is a foul 

 job. The fumes that come up from 

 that melting heeswax is enough to 

 poison a person, and it is a serious 

 thing. 



If you can get the foul brood out in 

 one season, do it, and don't think any 

 labor is too great, because w^hen it 

 goes over into the next season, and the 

 next, and you lose twenty or thirty 

 colonies, you will wish you had done 

 some burning up. 



Mr. Macklin — I was talking with Mr. 

 Stewart; he has four or five hundred 

 colonies, and he tells me he has not 

 destroyed any frames, or anything 

 aJbout the hive, during the last four 

 years. When he discovers foul brood, 

 he takes the whole thing and sets it 

 above another healthy colony; first he 

 moves it to a new location. He puts 

 it on a healthy colony, without the 

 queen- excluder between, and he claims 

 that the hees 'below go up there and 

 clean it all out, and some times the 

 queen goes up there and lays, but foul 

 brood never appears . again. I know 

 his bees have had American foul brood, 

 ■because I have toeen in his apiary and 

 examined it, but it does not seem pos- 

 sihle he can cure it in that way. I 

 meant to say that during the last four 

 years he has not destroyed any combs; 

 he says he thinks he has the thing 

 under control. 



Mr. Holtermann — I would like to 

 speak a word right here. A man from 

 Canada came to me — a bee-keeper of 

 a good many years' experience — and 

 said he had experience with foul brood 



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