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stronger with the weaker, and in ten days after the 
exchange to give each stock a young Italian queen. 
Within three weeks he wrote me that his stocks were 
cured, and all building up with none but healthy brood.* 
The Author’s Position Confirmed. 
Some two years after the publication of my 1904 edition, 
Mr. Alexander, an extensive bee-owner in America, con- 
tributed an article to “Gleanings in Bee Culture,” showing 
how he had cured large numbers of diseased stocks during 
1904-5, and by exactly the same means that | had for so 
many years been placing before bee-keepers.t 
Notwithstanding the interest created by Mr. Alexander’s 
article, and others by myself in the same Journal, my 
English and other critics would not believe there was any 
advantage in a queenless interval ; in the exchange of 
queens ; or the addition of healthy bees and brood. 
Presently my position was further endorsed by a French 
bee-keeper, M. Wimel (Srztesh Bee Journal, December 3rd, 
1908, p. 481), who was able to offer convincing proof that 
the period of probation, followed by the insertion of a 
vigorous young queen, resulted in a complete cure where 
otherwise medicinal agents had failed.t . 
Truth will come to the surface sooner or later, and 
although my critics of the Brétish Bee Journal were 
incredulous, and a writer referred to me as “one of the 
simpletons” who expected to cure foul brood by these 
methods—overlooking the fact that I had done so many 
* The Isle of Wight pest can be successfully treated in the same 
way; always allowing unusual ventilation. 
{+ Mr. Alexander had quite recently declared that he had read every 
bee-book published in the English language for 40 years, so without 
question he was aware of the facts I had already set forth. 
{ M. Wimel also doubtless had seen the translation of Mr. 
Alexander’s and my own articles in the French Bee Journals. 
