,»._, , ,.,,.. ^,.^.-j ,- -^. ji-~f'"l-'-jts~^-^--^,-'^i^^^^r~^^f^'_--t.^ ,-' 



132 



NINTH ANNUAL. REPORT OF THE 



SECOND DAY — Afternoon Session. 



The convention was called to order 

 at 1:30 p. m. 



President York — Dr. Miller, who is 

 on his way home, left with me a slip, 

 giving the Alexander treatment for 

 American foul brood, in condensed 

 form, which he wrote out this noon; 

 also for the European: 



Alexander Treatment for American 

 Foul Brood. 



Make the colony very strong. 

 Take away the queen. 

 Ten days later, destroy the queen - 

 cells and give a virgin queen. 



For European Foul Brood Treatment. 



Brush all frames of brood but one. 



Put beside that one, two empty 

 frames. 



When eggs are found in one of the 

 empty frames, take away the foul 

 brood comb. 



Mr. Horstmann — Dr. Miller speaks 

 about making colonies ve)*y strong; 

 now, the question is, how is he going 

 to make them strong? Is he going to 

 unite several colonies? Or how is that 

 to be done? 



Dr. Bohrer — I did it in this way: 

 Go to a strong colony that can spare 

 some brood, and take brood just 

 emerging from comb, and give it to 

 them; that will reinforce them, and 

 they can build up rapidly. After you 

 have put them on, say, strips of comb 

 foundation from two to four days, 

 then put them on full sheets, and give 

 them brood just as fast as they can 

 take care of it; in that way you will 

 build them up strong. When you find 

 you have American foul brood, you 

 will notice that the colony is very apt 

 to be reduced in numbers, and be- 

 come dispirited. That is one of the 

 first symptoms. I discovered the bees 

 lounging around the entrance of a 

 large Jumbo hive, and I knew that 

 something was wrong; I opened the 

 hive, and found they were infected 

 with foul brood; that was a powerful 

 colony. I put them on strips of foun- 

 dation, and then on full sheets, and 

 they went on and built up, and I saved 

 them, and they are a fine colony to- 

 day. 



Mr. Cavanagli — I think there is a 

 little danger of being misunderstood 

 if Dr. Bohrer will pardon me. The ob- 

 ject in getting those colonies strong. 



with European foul brood, is so they 

 may may cheer up and clean that dis- 

 ease out, so that when they are shaken 

 there will not be a back-set. The 

 treatment that Dr. Miller has is for 

 European type, and there is great dan- 

 ger of our confounding the two dis- 

 eases. There is no object in strength- 

 ening the American foul brood colonies, 

 to have them clean it out — they will 

 not do it; but they will clean out 

 European foul brood. 



Dr. Bohrer — Let that be emphasized 

 — they will not clean out American 

 foul br^ood; don't risk the kind of 

 treatment just mentioned for Ameri- 

 can foul brood; European foul brood 

 will do with that kind of treatment, in 

 all probability; I have no reason to 

 doubt it. 



Mr. Cavanagh — The Alexander treat- 

 ment is useless in American foul brood. 

 I wish they would cut out the name of 

 one of those diseases — make them dis- 

 tinct and separate, as they really are. 

 In regard to strengthening colonies: 



In our treatment this summer we 

 used these hive -bodies from diseased 

 colonies in strengthening other weak 

 ones. We kept the diseased combs to- 

 gether, and the healthy combs to- 

 gether; and when we cured them up 

 we cured them together instead of 

 spreading in fresh combs that are not 

 diseased; we make the sickness cure 

 itself. 



Mr. Baldridge — ^The simplest and best 

 way that I know of for strengthening 

 weak colonies, no matter whether dis- 

 eased or not, is to put them in the 

 place of strong, healthy colonies — ex- 

 change places; in strengthening my 

 bees I have always done that way, of 

 late years. Select a strong, healthy 

 colony and change places with the dis- 

 eased colony; you will not carry the 

 disease into the healthy colony, but 

 you will strengthen the other; I don't 

 believe in taking combs from healthy 

 colonies and giving them to diseased 

 colonies, because you will ruin the 

 combs if you do. You have to melt 

 those up. 



President York — We discussed this 

 question so thoroughly yesterday I 

 think we would better pass on to the 

 nutnerous questions that we still have 

 for discussion. 



Apiarian Exhibits at Fairs. 

 "How best to make bee and honey 

 exhibits at fairs?" 



President York — We have a paper on 



::^id 



