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disease in its more advanced stages, its identification at an 

 earlier date frequently proves a matter of some difficulty. In 

 its earliest stage the attack may be confined to one or two cells 

 in a frame, and if infection is suspected, very close examination 

 may be necessary in order to enable the owner to decide 

 if the disease is present. Bee-keepers should be on the 

 watch for the slightest appearance of infected brood in the 

 earlier stages of the disease, as much of the success attendant 

 upon the adoption of curative measures depends upon the early 

 application of the remedies employed. Before proceeding to 

 discuss the methods of treatment to be employed in dealing 

 with this disease, it may be well to point out that the curative 

 measures recommended should be resorted to only during the 

 period extending from March to October. 



XXIII.— CUEATIVE TEBATMENT OF FOUL BEOOD. 



If the attack of Foul Brood is a very mild one, and not more than 

 ten or twelve cells on each side of a frame 

 169. Very Mild are infected , the best course to adopt by way 

 Attacks. of treatment, is to wash out each diseased 



cell with pure formalin, using for this pur- 

 pose a small glass syringe, which can be bought for about six- 

 pence. If a syringe is not available, the formalin may be 

 dropped into the cells with a quill or wooden match, but care 

 should be taken to avoid dropping any of the liquid into healthy 

 cells. After disinfection in this manner, the dead larvee may 

 be removed from the cells with a match or a pointed piece of 

 wood and then burnt, and afterwards the floor board of the hive 

 should be covered with a thick calico cloth , previously saturated 

 with a formalin solution consisting of 



1 part formalin, 

 7 parts water. 



The cloth thus put on should be re-saturated with the one-to- 

 seven formalin solution at intervals of about a week, until there 

 is reason to believe that all trace of the disease has been 

 removed. 



If the attack is more severe than that just described, but if not 

 more than half the brood in the frame is 

 170. Mild Attacks, involved, the following course of treat- 

 ment should be adopted :-;ipProcure a suit- 

 able lamp for the gasification of formalin tablets ; the lamp 

 illustrated in Fig. 50, costing 6s., is sold by Messrs. Fletcher 

 and Phillipson, 10, Lower Baggot- street, Dublin ; also procure 

 a few formalin tablets, costing Is. per box of twenty, and one 

 ounce of paraform powder, costing about Is., all of which can 

 be obtained from a druggist. Plac^ the hive in a room, or else 

 so shelter it, that the fumes from the lamp will not be blown 

 away, when the lamp is in use. If the hive floor-board is 



