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The disease is first to be noticed by the unsealed larvae 

 turning yellow, and then dark brown or black, instead of ever 

 presenting a pearly white appearance, while some of the 

 capped brood is in the same state, with coverings pierced and 

 sunken. Now, here is a distinction to be observed between 

 the genuine foul brood and simple chilled or dead brood. In 

 the former case none of the larvae dries up to a white cinder, 

 being always rotten and sUmy, so that the bees do not, as a 

 rule, remove it from the cells. 



Chilled Brood and Simple Dead Brood. 



The former is s6on removed by the bees, and should any 

 be overlooked, it dries into a hard lump without changing 

 colour. Simple dead brood resulting without chill, and with 

 Jio apparent evidence of disease, has in some cells the appear- 

 ance of the genuine foul brood, but with this the greater part 

 of the nearly mature bees dry up and retain their original form 

 and colour. By this feature alone I have always been able to 

 distinguish the difference between the two, and have put an 

 end to the more simple affair in all cases by destroying the 

 queen and giving a young and vigorous one to the colony. 



Cheshire Cure for Foul Brood. 



Mr. Cheshire has presented to the bee-keeping world what 

 has in his own hands cured some of the worst cases of foul 

 brood that he could secure. The remedy is absolute phenol 

 or pure carbolic alcid, used in the proportion of i -400th in the 

 syrup fed to the bees. 



Mr. Cheshire considers that the queen must not be re- 

 moved ; but on the contrary, if it is intended to save 

 . the combs, I have found the first step towards a rapid 

 recovery is made by deposing the reigning queen, and giving 

 a young and vigorous queen bred from clean stock, when 

 the entire attitude of the bees is changed, and great deter- 

 mination and energy takes the place of the former utter 

 inability to clear out the foul stuff. 



