bees are becoming less active. All felt or enamelled cloths, or glass 

 " quilts " should be avoided as a plague, where there in any danger from 

 I.O.W. Entrances must be as wide as possible, according to the 

 strength of the colony. 



Camphor a great help. 



S.S. has frequently advised correspondents to place a cube of camphor 

 on the floor of the hive where the Acarus is present ; and in bad cases to 

 spray over the tops of frames (and quilts before returning) with spirits 

 of camphor — three teaspooufuls well shaken up in one pint of warm 

 water. — This can be done two or three times a week when the weather 

 is mild. During winter leave a cube of camphor on the floor, and 

 another over the first ticking. 



Feeding Rapidly in Autumn 



is a great aid towards a cure, as the vim and roaring energy caused 

 thereby will help to expel disease germs before the bees settle down 

 for winter. Affected stocks in hot weather, should — nay, iiiust — have 

 their hives shaded. 



Foul Brood. 



When the I.O.W. complaint was devastating apiaries all over the 

 country and the greatest experts (?) in the land were declaring positively 

 that the disease was incurable and could only be extinguished by fire, 

 S. Simmins stood alone in declaring that the trouble was quite a simple 

 matter and was readily curable by correct manipulation, and the use of 

 bees of a vigorous race. 



Many of Simmins' clients have since been grateful for his advice, and 

 following it, have been able to stagger so-called experts by the results 

 attained ; in many cases the simple insertion of " W.S." queens during 

 the active season resulted in healthy, hurricane colonies. 



Many years earlier S.S. declared that Foul Brood was easily curable, 

 also without the use of medicines, except as a precaution against 

 further infection. 



In numerous cases, the insertion of a vigorous type of young queeu, 

 has resulted in a permanent cure. In other cases, the addition of an 

 occasional comb of mature, hatching brood of the right strain of bees 

 has acted in the same satisfactory manner. 



It is nearly fifty years since S.S. first discovered and published this 

 important fact, and twenty years later an American who had read the 

 Author's book describing the same, offered this method of cure as his 

 own idea ! 



