130 A Modern Bee-Farm 
ence gained while carrying out his onerous duties as Foul 
Brood Inspector in. Canada. 
He gives numerous instances of foul brood resulting 
wholesale in large apiaries, hitherto free from disease, after 
being flooded so that most of the brood was killed, and 
the colonies of bees being so reduced, that after trying 
in vain to clear out the enormous amount of dead matter, 
continued to rear brood in small patches, until the usual 
result proved only too plainly that the living and the dead 
may not thrive and procreate in the same limited space 
without ultimately inducing an organic state of disease ; 
the natural warmth, with its consequent fermenting effect 
being not the least agent in bringing about the final act. 
2.—The Secondary causes of foul brood ave: (a) Robbing 
from an already diseased stock; (b) Carelessness on the part of 
the owner in working from an infected to a clean hive; (c) 
Mixing diseased combs and appliances with those of clean stock ; 
(d) Feeding with diseased honey. 
My second proposition does’ not, apparently, contain 
much that is new, and most of the clauses considered are 
already established fact. It was, however, only in recent 
years that some of the more prominent scientists could be 
brought to believe that honey contained the spores of the 
Bacillus alvez, But there can be no doubt that honey 
has always been the most dangerous medium for the 
propagation of the disease; certainly it is the most 
tempting bait one may leave within reach of the olfactory 
senses of the bees, who are ever on the alert ready to 
appropriate that God-given sweet, even though the death- 
dealing touch of the dark angel may be upon it. 
In years long gone by I have found repeated cases of 
disease being started in the previously healthy combs of 
colonies which had been traced robbing from a diseased 
source ; and this has been quite a general experience. 
