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cappings are punctured, and that the brood has an offensive 

 odor." — (Bertrand, Eevue Internationale d 'Apiculture.) 



Two things are important in the detection of the disease 

 and on these we will insist, the ropiness and the glue-pot smell. 

 The ropiness gave the idea of the French name of the disease 

 "la loque" which means "rag, tatter." Evidently the French- 

 man who gave it a name noticed that the dead larva, if you 

 attempt to draw it out, comes in tatters, in rags, just as so 

 much liquid India rubber. The glue-pot smell is also plain. 

 These matters are important for there is a disease called 

 "pickled brood" which is far from being as dangerous as 

 foul-brood and has most of the symptoms of foul-brood ex- 

 cept the ropiness and smell (801). 



791. Cure. Several methods of cure for foul-brood have 

 been given, with more or less successful results. We will tirst 

 give the method of Hilbert, as practiced by Chas. F. Muth 

 and described in his "Practical Hints" : 



"In April, I discovered two colonies in my apiary, affected 

 with the disease. I brimstoned the bees the same evening, 

 burned up the combs and frames, and disinfected the hives. 

 Another colony showed it in May. Feeling sorry to kill a 

 beautiful queen, besides a very strong colony of pure Italians, I 

 brushed them on ten frames of como-foundation, into a clean 

 hive, and placed over them a jar with food, as I shall describe 

 hereafter. The old combs and frames were burned up, and the 

 hives disinfected. This feeding was kept up until all the sheets 

 of comb-foundation were built out nicely and filled with brood 

 and honey. It was a beautiful colony of bees about four weeks 

 afterwards, full of healthy brood, and with combs as regular 

 as can only be made by the aid of comb-foundation. Pour more 

 colonies were discovered infected, one after another. All went 

 through the same process, and every one is a healthy colony 

 at present. I was so convinced of the completeness of this cure, 

 that I introduced into one of these colonies my first Cyprian 

 queen sent me by friend Dadant. 



"All are doing finely now, and no more foul -brood. Should, 

 however, another one of my colonies show signs of the disease, 



