406 Remedies for Foul Brood. 
injure the bees, but will prove fatal to the fungi. Mr. 
Muth found on trial that though this method would cure, 
the labor and danger of spreading the disease in the opera- 
tion was so great that actual cremation of all affected stocks 
was often to be preferred. An improvement which is just 
as successful and without the objections, is suggested by 
Mr. Muth as follows: Drum the bees all out into a clean 
hive, filled with foundation, shut them in this hive and feed 
them honey or syrup, after adding to each quart one ounce 
of the above compound, except that sixteen grains each of 
the salicylic acid and soda-borax are used, thus making the 
solution of double the strength. The honey should be 
extracted and boiled, the old combs melted into wax, and 
the hive scalded or burned. Great caution should be exer- 
cised that none of the honey be eaten by bees till it has been 
scalded. In 1874 Dr. Boutleroff, a Russian, introduced car- 
bolic acid or phenol as a cure of foul brood. Dr. Preusz 
also recommends this very highly. It is recommended to 
destroy the worst combs, remove the queen, and in twenty- 
one days remove the bees toa new hive and feed them 
with syrup one pound of which has received two drops of 
carbolic acid. It is best to melt up all the combs, extract 
and scald the honey, and scald the hives. The bees may 
be put on foundation. A less safe way is to uncap the 
cells and spray with the following: Pure crystalline phe- 
nol is dissolved in one-fourth its weight of water. One 
part of this is added to fifty or seventy-five parts water and 
used as the spray. But there is much danger of scattering 
the germs, inoculating some visiting bee from another 
hive, or of not making thorough work. In this day of cheap 
foundation it is better to melt up the combs and use founda- 
tion, The thorough way is the wise and the only safe 
way. Mr. Cheshire claims that the germs are not in the 
honey, and claims to have been very successful in the worst 
cases, by treating with phenol. 
Some bee-keepers in England ‘hiv they have cured 
this malady by simply placing camphor gum in the hive. 
The fact that others have not succeeded with this remedy, 
makes it a very doubtful one. 
Mr. D. A. Jones is successful with what he terms the 
