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THIRD ANNUAL REPORT 



UTAH. 



Utah has county inspectors, and from one who has re- 

 markable success I copy the report of his method of treat- 

 ment: 



"Wherever found, it should be dealt with earnestly and 

 with dispatch. If the colony is weak, I recommend smother- 

 ing the bees, and in order to do this without letting a bee 

 escape, take a tablespoonful of sulphur and place it in the. 

 entrance of the hives, if there is any breeze, turn the hive 

 so it will blow in the entrance. Then fire the sulphur and it 

 will soon kill the bees. This should be done early in the 

 morning before any of the bees are flying, as one bee escap- 

 ing from the hive might carry the disease to any colony with 

 which it may take up its abode. If the colony is a strong one, 

 I would keep the entrance partly closed so as to prevent any 

 other bees from getting in. Then as soon as fruit-blossoms 

 come out so the bees can obtain honey I treat them. I pro- 

 cure an empty box of any kind so it is clean, then find the 

 queen, put her in a screen-wire cage which is easily made. 

 Take a small piece of screen, roll it up and tie a string around 

 either end, cork up one end, then place the queen and a fev) 

 workers for company in the cage and place in the other end 

 cork. Put same in this box and shake all the bees out of their 

 hive into the box. This must be done in the evening when 

 no bees are flying. Keep the queen in this box 24 to 48 

 hours, allowing the bees to fly in and out as they please. 

 Next take a clean hive with good, healthy combs or founda- 

 tion and shake bees into it, letting the queen go and they will 

 be free from disease. The old combs are melted into wax, 

 bringing same to a good boil. Often washing with boiling 

 water any hives or implements that might contain disease. 

 Wherever strictly followed this has effected a cure." — C. Wil- 

 cox, Emery Co., Utah. 



PICKLED BROOD. 



Some seasons pickled brood is quite bad among bees, and 

 in a few cases I have known it to reduce large colonies, even 

 large apiaries to doubtful hopes, but those same colonies, 

 after I gave them treatment, were in a month free from all 

 disease. Sometimes it takes as careful handling as if foul 

 brood. I do not believe it is contagious, for all I have seen 

 is 60 colonies in one apiary badly reduced by it. As an ex- 

 periment one of my out-apiaries had 50 colonies at one time 

 with pickled brood. I treated -them and all were soon free 

 from dead brood. At the same time I took 10 of the worst 

 brood-combs where at least two-thirds of the brood was dead, 

 and placed those combs in other strong, healthy colonies. 

 They at once cleaned out the dead brood and reared as nice 

 brood as one could ask for. 



SYMPTOMS. 



The larval bees (in last of May and through June) show 

 light-brown spots, a little later the cappings have small 

 holes in — the cappings are not sunken or dark-colored as in 



