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should carry the infection to their respective houses. By 

 the before-mentioned process, Mr. "Woodbury succeeded 

 in completely extirpating- foul brood from his apiary in 

 1^63, and has had no return of it since. English apiarian 

 writers have made so little allusion to this disorder, that 

 some of our older bee-keepers contend that modem hives 

 and foreign bees have something to do with bringing it 

 about. To show that the disease made its appearance 

 in former days, there is a chapter on this subject in 

 Bonner's "Bee-Keeper's Companion," published at 

 Berwick, in 1 798, entitled, "An uncommon Disaster which 

 sometimes, though rarely, happens to Bees," which Mr. 

 Woodbury quotes at length in ihe Journal of Horticulture. 

 Bonner, after recounting therein his observations of the 

 dwindling state of his apiary for which he could not 

 account, says : " He saw plainly that the young were all 

 going backward in. the cells, and that he looked down 

 between the combs, but was unable to proceed for the 

 stench that the rotten maggots produced." Mr. Lang- 

 stroth vmtes that "Aristotle speaks of a disease which 

 was accompanied with a disgusting smell, so that there 

 is rccison to believe that foul brood was known two 

 thousand years ago." 



When we take into consideration how sorely our 

 fanners are perplexed by the cattle plague, known as 

 the rinderpest, concerning which so many conflicting 

 opinions exist (and the same may be said of the recom- 

 mendations for its Cure), can we wonder that our, littk 



