114 A Modern Bee-Farm 
Do not by any means wait until the complaint is 
strongly in evidence, with the unsealed larve turning 
yellow, and then dark brown or black, instead of ever 
presenting a pearly white appearance, while some of the 
capped brood is in the same state, with coverings pierced 
and sunken. Now, here is a distinction to be observed 
between the genuine foul brood and simple chilled or dead 
brood. In the former case none of the larvze dries up to 
a white cinder, being always rotten and slimy, so that the 
bees do not, as a rule, remove it from the cells. In the 
case of 
Chilled Brood and Simple Dead Brood, 
the former is soon removed by the bees, and should 
any be overlooked, it dries into a hard lump without 
changing colour. Simple dead brood resulting without 
chill, and with no apparent evidence of disease, has in 
some cells the appearance of the genuine foul brood, but 
with this the greater part of the nearly mature bees dry 
up and retain their original form and colour. By this 
feature alone I have always been able to distinguish the 
difference between the two, and have put an end to the 
more simple affair in all cases by destroying the queen 
and giving a young and vigorous one to the colony. 
Cheshire’s Remedy 
was absolute phenol or pure carbolic acid, used in the 
proportion of 1-4ooth in the syrup fed to the bees. I 
have found the first step towards a rapid recovery is 
made by deposing the reigning queen, and giving a young 
and vigorous queen bred from clean stock, when the entire 
attitude of the bees is changed, and great determination 
and energy takes the place of the former utter inability to 
clear out the foul stuff. 
